The ages of voluntarism : how we got to the Big Society
McKay, JamesContributor
Hilton, MatthewContributor
British Academy.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2011.
This text provides the historical background to the rise of the big society. Voluntarism has evolved over the last hundred years to adapt to changing circumstances, drawing up new agendas tackling old problems, and acting as an alternative to state provision and as a catalyst for further government action.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This text provides the historical background to the rise of the big society. Voluntarism has evolved over the last hundred years to adapt to changing circumstances, drawing up new agendas tackling old problems, and acting as an alternative to state provision and as a catalyst for further government action.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The ages of voluntarism : an introduction / Matthew Hilton and James McKay -- Voluntarism and the impact of the First World War / Peter Grant -- Associational voluntarism in interwar Britain / Helen McCarthy -- Labour, charity and voluntary action : the myth of hostility / Nicholas Deakin and Justin Davis Smith -- Civil society, class and locality : tenant groups in post-war Britain / Peter Shapely -- Professionalisation, new social movements and voluntary action in the 1960s and 1970s / Virginia Berridge and Alex Mold -- Faith, charity and citizenship : Christianity, voluntarism and the state in the 1980s / Eliza Filby -- Voluntary action, New Labour and the "third sector" / Pete Alcock.
Voluntarism
Charities
Non-governmental organizations
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Social Conditions