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Volunteering and Social Inclusion

Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain

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  1. Susanne Strauß
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Part of the book series: Life Course Research (LCR)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-15
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 17-29
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  3. A theoretical approach to the interrelation between volunteering and unemployment

    Pages 31-69
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  4. The role of volunteering for labour market integration or exclusion — German and British social policies compared

    Pages 71-117
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  5. Unemployment and volunteering — previous research revisited

    Pages 119-163
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  6. Hypotheses

    Pages 165-168
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  7. Methodological approach: cross-national and longitudinal

    Pages 169-201
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  8. Empirical results: Interrelations between volunteering and labour market inclusion or exclusion

    Pages 203-252
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  9. Discussion and conclusion

    Pages 253-260
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  10. Back Matter

    Pages 261-290
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About this book

Over the past few years, the area of volunteer work and civic engagement are topics that have received increasing attention from both the public as well as sociological research. In particular, there has been a controversy as to what - gree voluntary work can be regarded as a collective solution for attenuating - bour market problems and risks of social exclusion. Empirical evidence for the employment effects of voluntary work has made scholars more sceptical than many optimistic scenarios. So far, however, the links between paid work and voluntary work have mainly been discussed as either a phenomenon on the macro-level of society (like the question of substi- tion effects) and/or on the basis of results from cross-sectional research. While there has been some evidence for an association between unemployment and reduced engagement in voluntary work – which may represent cumulative dis- vantage rather than means of compensation – we know relatively little about the dynamics and directions of causality on the individual level. In contrast to conventional research, the study by Susanne Strauß offers a careful and thorough analysis of mutual relationships between unemployment and voluntary work as they show up as activities in individual life courses.

About the author

Dr. Susanne Strauß holds a doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS) at the University of Bremen, Germany. She is an assistent professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Volunteering and Social Inclusion

  • Book Subtitle: Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain

  • Authors: Susanne Strauß

  • Series Title: Life Course Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-5573-5

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8350-7021-9Published: 24 April 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-8350-5573-5Published: 24 June 2008

  • Series ISSN: 2626-7241

  • Series E-ISSN: 2626-725X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 275

  • Additional Information: Erscheint im Programm VS RESEARCH.

  • Topics: Business Ethics, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology, general

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