Volunteering and Social Inclusion
Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain
Authors: Strauß, Susanne
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- About this book
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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 people who have lost their job keep up their volunteering activities to use them as an alternative source of social recognition? Does volunteering help with finding a new job? By comparing the situation in two different countries, the author stresses that differences in labour market institutions lead to distinct answers. Moreover, the study points to variations with respect to gender, education and the type of volunteering organisations.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 17-29
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A theoretical approach to the interrelation between volunteering and unemployment
Pages 31-69
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The role of volunteering for labour market integration or exclusion — German and British social policies compared
Pages 71-117
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Unemployment and volunteering — previous research revisited
Pages 119-163
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Hypotheses
Pages 165-168
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Volunteering and Social Inclusion
- Book Subtitle
- Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain
- Authors
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- Susanne Strauß
- Series Title
- Life Course Research
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Copyright Holder
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-8350-5573-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-8350-5573-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-8350-7021-9
- Series ISSN
- 2626-7241
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 275
- Additional Information
- Erscheint im Programm VS RESEARCH.
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