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

Volunteering and Social Inclusion Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain / by Susanne Strauß.

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...

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Main Author: Strauß, Susanne (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften : Imprint: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Life Course Research,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Business ethics.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Sociology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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