Full Description
How voluntary action has been defined and measured is considered alongside individuals' accounts of their participation and engagement in volunteering over their lifecourse in this pioneering study. Combining rich, qualitative material from the Mass Observation Archive (1981-2012) with data from longitudinal and cross-sectional social surveys, it asks what is the scope and appetite for expansion of voluntary effort?
Contents
Introduction;
The changing policy environment for voluntary action from 1979;
Data, sources and definitions;
Trends in volunteering and trends in the voluntary sector;
Content and Context of Volunteering;
Why people volunteer: contextualising motivation;
Volunteering trajectories: individual patterns of volunteering over the life-course;
Attitudes to voluntary action;
Conclusion.
