Enterprising care? [electronic resource] : Unpaid voluntary action in the 21st century
Hardill, Irene.
Baines, Susan.
Bristol, U.K. ; Portland, Ore. : Policy Press,
2011.
What does it mean to be a volunteer in the UK today? This book adds new insights into volunteering from the perspective of the individual, the organisation and the community .
Description based upon print version of record.
Enterprising care?; Contents; List of tables, figures and boxes; List of abbreviations; Notes on the authors; Acknowledgements; 1. Fixing Britain's 'broken' society: from the Third Way to Big Society; Introduction; Unpaid voluntary work; The voluntary and community sector; The book; Researching volunteering and the voluntary and community sector; Conclusion; 2. Theoretical underpinnings of voluntary work and voluntary organisations: work, care or enterprise?; Introduction; Caring for others, the ethics of care and communities; Work: thinking beyond paid employment; The lure of enterprise
Conclusion3. Understanding the journeys of individual volunteers: demanding community concern, or demonstrating job readiness?; Introduction; Public policy and volunteering; Volunteer motivation; Pathways to volunteering: a case study of Brightville; Conclusion; 4. A professional paradox? 'Managing' volunteers involuntary and community sector organisations; Introduction; Managing volunteers: the issues; Growth in the paid workforce; Careers in the voluntary and community sector; The search for a professional identity; Conclusions
5. Voluntary and community sector organisations as enterprising care providers: keeping organisational values distinctiveIntroduction: organisations that involve volunteers; Size, scope and diversity of the voluntary and community sector; State-sponsored VCSOs and the provision of care; VCSOs as service providers: innovation and trust; Making VCSOs more enterprising; Evidence from the front line: changing organisations; Conclusion: making sense of it; 6. Volunteering: an articulation of caring communities; Introduction; Community studies; Community and public policy; Brightville: a case study
Conclusion7. Volunteering: caring for people like me; Introduction; Communities of interest: a case study of Age UK; Conclusion; 8. The big issue of the Big Society: mobilising communities alongside fiscal austerity; Introduction: the Year of the Volunteer; Reflections on the scope and context of the book; What next? The Big Society and fiscal austerity; Approach to research: co-produced knowledge; Back to communities; Bibliography; Index
What does it mean to be a volunteer in the UK today? This book adds new insights into volunteering from the perspective of the individual, the organisation and the community .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Charities -- Great Britain -- History.
Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Voluntarism -- Great Britain.
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Social Conditions