The Ages of Voluntarism

NOTE EDITORE

This book provides the historical background to the rise of the Big Society. Voluntarism has evolved over the last hundred years to adapt to changing circumstances, drawing up new agendas, tackling old problems, and acting as an alternative to state provision and as a catalyst for further government action.

SOMMARIO

1: Matthew Hilton and James McKay: The Ages of Voluntarism: an Introduction; 2: Peter Grant: Voluntarism and the Impact of the First World War; 3: Helen McCarthy: Associational Voluntarism in Interwar Britain; 4: Nicholas Deakin and Justin Davis Smith: Labour, Charity and Voluntary Action: the Myth of Hostility; 5: Peter Shapely: Civil Society, Class and Locality: Tenant Groups in Post-War Britain; 6: Virginia Berridge and Alex Mold: Professionalisationk New Social Movements and Voluntary Action in the 1960s and 1970s; 7: Liza Filby: Faith, Charity and Citizenship: Christianity, Volunarism and the State in the 1980s; 8: Peter Alcock: Voluntary Action, New Labour and the 'Third Sector'

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780197264829
• Collana: British Academy Original Paperbacks
• Dimensioni: 234 x 11 x 156 mm Ø 311 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: One illustration
• Pagine Arabe: 202