Volunteering and society in the 21st century

Expectations about the contribution that volunteering can make to society areat a new high. This book, now in paperback and with a major new foreword exploring the impact of the UK government's 'Big Society' agenda on volunteering, brings together in one volume what is known about the volunteering phenomenon. COLIN ROCHESTER Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Social Policy and Education at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He has previously held posts at Roehampton University and the London School of Economics. He has co-edited three books: 'An Introduction to the Voluntary Sector' (with Justin Davis Smith and Rodney Hedley); 'Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy: Perspectives on Change and Choice' (with Margaret Harris); and 'Understanding the Roots of Voluntary Action' (with George Campbell Gosling, Alison Penn and Meta Zimmeck). ANGELA ELLIS PAINE Research Fellow at the ESRC Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) at the University of Birmingham, UK. Prior to joining TSRC, Angela was Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research, where she spent ten years undertaking numerous research projects into different aspects of volunteering. Angela has authored several reports and book chapters, including co-authoring 'Helping Out: A National Survey of Volunteering and Charitable Giving' (with Natalie Low, Sarah Butt and Justin Davis Smith). STEVEN HOWLETT Senior Lecturer in the Business School at the University of Roehampton, UK, where he teaches on the business management course and convenes the Masters inHuman Rights Practice. He was previously Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Volunteering Research and researcher at the Centre for Institutional Studies at the University of East London, UK. He co-edited 'Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Resource for Voluntary Service Managers' (with Ros Scott and Derek Doyle). META ZIMMECK Partner in the Practical Wisdom R2Z Research Consultancy and the principal author of Use it or Lose it - a summative evaluation of the Compact between the Government and the Voluntary and Community Sector. She is also co-editor of 'Understanding the Roots of Voluntary Action'(with Colin Rochester, George Campbell Gosling and Alison Penn). She was headof the Voluntary and Community Research Section in the Home Office for six years and was responsible for a complex portfolio of research and evaluation. INDICE: Foreword - Introduction - Making Sense of Volunteering: Perspectives, Principles and Definitions - Capturing the Diversity of Voluntary Action -Profiling Voluntary Action: Who Does What? - UK Volunteering in InternationalPerspective - A Changing Society - Government and Volunteering; Towards a History of Policy and Practice - The Changing Face of Volunteering b Current andFuture Trends - Motivation and Recruitment: Why and How do Volunteers Come? -Rewards and Retention: Why do Volunteers Stay? - Issues of Co-ordination and Management: How Can the Activities of Volunteers be Best Organised? - Measuring the Impact of Volunteering - Changing the Image of Volunteering - Making Volunteering Inclusive - Maintaining the Independence of Voluntary Action - Defending the Spirit of Volunteering from Formalisation - Voluntary Action in the 21st Century - References - - -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-36772-2
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 296
• Fecha Publicación: 30/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés