Enterprising care?
Unpaid voluntary action in the 21st century

Author/Editor(s):

Irene Hardill, Susan Baines

Format:

Hardback, 216 pages, 240 x 172 mm

ISBN

9781847427212

Published:

14 Sep 2011

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North America customers can order this book here from the University of Chicago Press.

"This book, from authors who know their field very well, is a valuable resource, giving this reader, at last, a fresh sense of the complexity of unpaid voluntary action, a good sense of the reality on the ground and a range of useful ways to understand it."
Marilyn Taylor, Journal of Social Policy

"Feeding directly into the current ideological discussions on Big Society, 'Enterprising care?' is essential reading for all interested in the future of the voluntary sector."
Colin C Williams, Professor of Public Policy, University of Sheffield

About This Book

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).

Author Biography

Irene Hardill is Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University. She has extensive research experience in theorising work (paid and unpaid), volunteering and the voluntary and community sector Susan Baines is Reader in Social Policy at Manchester Metropolitan University. She researches and publishes on public services, and has a particular interest in their reliance on unpaid work in the household and community.

Contents

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

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