Volunteering and Social Inclusion Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Strauß, Susanne (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008.
• Θέματα: Business.; Business ethics.; Sociology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Business and Management.; Business Ethics.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Sociology, general.

Conceptualising employment and volunteering as two distinct forms of social inclusion, Susanne Strauß analyses their interrelations in Germany and Great Britain. On the basis of household panel data, she answers questions such as: Does job loss lead people to give up their volunteer work? Or do peop...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• A theoretical approach to the interrelation between volunteering and unemployment
• The role of volunteering for labour market integration or exclusion — German and British social policies compared
• Unemployment and volunteering — previous research revisited
• Hypotheses
• Methodological approach: cross-national and longitudinal
• Empirical results: Interrelations between volunteering and labour market inclusion or exclusion
• Discussion and conclusion.