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

• Main Author: Strauß, Susanne (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008.
• Subjects: 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...