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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
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The Nonprofit-Sector and Social Integration
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Labour Concepts and Market Integration
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About this book
In many countries, particularly in continental Europe, societies have been plagued by high unemployment for several decades. Simultaneously, due to recent shifts from industrial to service-oriented post-industrial societies, labor as a significant culture code is increasingly loosing importance. Because of this, the third or voluntary sector as a place of employment and as a service agency to society has become important for Europe as indicated by the 1997 Communication of the European Commission and various declarations by the European Parliament and the EU's Economic and Social Council.
Strategy Mix for Nonprofit Organizations: Vehicles for Social and Labor Market Integration explores the role of the third sector in Europe, where unemployment is high and in North America, where unemployment is rising and exploring the "gaps" that the third sector is fulfilling: both as a social service and as an employer.
The volume is organized into two distinctive parts. Part 1: The Nonprofit-Sector and Social Integration highlights the embeddedness of the sector in selected countries; it discusses how the sector is currently affected by changes of public policy particularly in the traditional social-democratic welfare state regimes, and it draws our attention to the sector's potentials to provide avenues for social integration, self-actualization and civic empowerment.
Part 2: Labor Concepts and Market Integration refers to the multifunctionality of third sector organizations discussing potentials of workplace as well as community involvement via nonprofit organizations.
This seminal volume will be of interest to those in the nonprofit sector, organizational management and economics, political scientists and other researchers working with nonprofit organizations and civil society studies on an international level.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Strategy Mix for Nonprofit Organisations
Book Subtitle: Vehicles for Social and Labour Market Integrations
Editors: Annette Zimmer, Christina Stecker
Series Title: Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6858-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48485-8Published: 30 April 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48486-5Published: 30 April 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6858-6Published: 19 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1568-2579
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 320
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Management, Political Science, Economics, general