Rediscovering Voluntary Action [electronic resource] : The Beat of a Different Drum /
Rochester, C.author.
Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence has led to a narrow and distorted view of what voluntary action involves and how it is undertaken. This book reasserts the case for a broader view of voluntarism as a unique set of autonomous activities.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : why the theory and practice of voluntary action need rethinking -- Revisiting the roots of voluntary action -- The invention of the voluntary sector and its consequences -- The invention of voluntary work and its consequences -- A perilous partnership? : voluntary action and the state -- Selling out? voluntary action and the market -- The hegemony of the bureaucratic model -- The pressure from within -- Ownership and control -- What are voluntary organisations for? -- The fallacies of managerialism -- Towards a round earth map of volunteering -- Dissenting voices : the case of the national coalition for independent action -- The paradox of sectorisation -- Towards an alternative paradigm -- The implications of rethinking voluntary action.
Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence has led to a narrow and distorted view of what voluntary action involves and how it is undertaken. This book reasserts the case for a broader view of voluntarism as a unique set of autonomous activities.
Social service.
Welfare state.
Public policy.
Social policy.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Sociology.
Social Work and Community Development.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Public Policy.
Social Policy.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Sociology, general.