Rediscovering Voluntary Action

1. Introduction: Why the Theory and Practice of Voluntary Action Need Rethinking
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Part I. The Context

2. Revisiting the Roots of Voluntary Action
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3. The Invention of the Voluntary Sector and its Consequences
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4. The Invention of Voluntary Work and its Consequences
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Part II. Pressures and Influences

5. A Perilous Partnership? Voluntary Action and the State
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6. Selling Out? Voluntary Action and the Market
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7. The Hegemony of the Bureaucratic Model
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8. The Pressure from Within
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Part III. Alternative Perspectives

9. Governance, Ownership and Control
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10. What Is Voluntary Action For?
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11. The Fallacies of Managerialism
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12. Towards a ‘Round Earth’ Map of Volunteering
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13. Dissenting Voices: The Case of the National Coalition for Independent Action
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Part IV. Conclusions and Implications

14. The Paradox of Sectorisation
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15. Towards an Alternative Paradigm
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16. The Implications of Rethinking Voluntary Action
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Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Work and Community Development, Politics of the Welfare State, Public Policy, Social Policy, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology, general