Enterprising care? : : Unpaid voluntary action in the 21st century / / Irene Hardill, Susan Baines.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Hardill, Irene,; Baines, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

More and more is being expected of volunteers and the voluntary sector in the UK. But what does it mean to be a volunteer today? This book seeks to add new insights into individual action in that part of the economy that is beyond the state and the market. Volunteering is examined from the perspective of the individual, the organisation, and the community (of place, identity or interest).

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables, figures and boxes -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Fixing Britain’s ‘broken’ society: from the Third Way to Big Society -- Theoretical underpinnings of voluntary work and voluntary organisations: work, care or enterprise? -- Understanding the journeys of individual volunteers: demanding community concern, or demonstrating job readiness? -- A professional paradox? ‘Managing’ volunteers in voluntary and community sector organisations -- Voluntary and community sector organisations as enterprising care providers: keeping organisational values distinctive -- Volunteering: an articulation of caring communities -- Volunteering: caring for people like me -- The big issue of the Big Society: mobilising communities alongside fiscal austerity -- Bibliography -- Index