Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging, Family, and Human ServicesPublisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Voluntarism in America
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging, Family, and Human ServicesPublisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Voluntarism, Community Life, and the American Ethic
Author: Robert S. OgilviePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253110206
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"This is a major contribution to the literature on social participation and voluntary action. It is the first systematic ethnographic study I know that treats volunteers and the institutions they create." -- John Van Til, author of Growing Civil Society "Students and faculty interested in the issue of homelessness will find the book instructive... Recommended." -- Choice Why do people volunteer, and what motivates them to stick with it? How do local organizations create community? How does voluntary participation foster moral development in volunteers to create a better citizenry? In this fascinating study of volunteers at the Partnership for the Homeless in New York City, Robert S. Ogilvie provides bold and engaging answers to these questions. He describes how volunteer programs such as the Partnership generate ethical development in and among participants and how the Partnership's volunteers have made it such a continued success since the early 1980s. Ogilvie's examination of voluntarism suggests that the American ethic is essential for sustaining community life and to the future well-being of a democratic society.
Civic Gifts
Author: Elisabeth S. ClemensPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022667083X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
In Civic Gifts, Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despite the linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences among settlers and, eventually, citizens? Clemens reveals that an important piece of the answer to these questions can be found in the unexpected political uses of benevolence and philanthropy, practices of gift-giving and reciprocity that coexisted uneasily with the self-sufficient independence expected of liberal citizens Civic Gifts focuses on the power of gifts not only to mobilize communities throughout US history, but also to create new forms of solidarity among strangers. Clemens makes clear how, from the early Republic through the Second World War, reciprocity was an important tool for eliciting both the commitments and the capacities needed to face natural disasters, economic crises, and unprecedented national challenges. Encompassing a range of endeavors from the mobilized voluntarism of the Civil War, through Community Chests and the Red Cross to the FDR-driven rise of the March of Dimes, Clemens shows how voluntary efforts were repeatedly articulated with government projects. The legacy of these efforts is a state co-constituted with, as much as constrained by, civil society.
Voice and Equality
Author: Sidney VerbaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674942936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
This book confirms the idea put forth by Tocqueville that American democracy is rooted in civic voluntarism—citizens’ involvement in family, work, school, and religion, as well as in their political participation as voters, campaigners, protesters, or community activists. The authors analyze civic activity with a massive survey of 15,000 people.
Voluntarism in America
Author: Voluntarism in America
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging, Family, and Human ServicesPublisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
By the People
Author: Susan J. EllisPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book provides a history of volunteers in America from the 1620s to the present time. The publication describes the great variety of work that has been performed by volunteers (from health work to anti-war activism) and the broad range of organizations and associations that have utilized volunteer labor.
A Principled Approach to Voluntarism in America
Author: Stephen Clark RogersPublisher:
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Category : Voluntarism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Voluntarism in America
Author: William Burnett BynumPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Heart of the Nation
Author: John M. BridgelandPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442220627
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Heart of the Nation traces America’s volunteer tradition—the golden thread of American democracy—and how Presidents from Washington to Obama have called on citizens to serve neighbor and nation. From the bunker below the White House on 9/11 to villages in Africa, John Bridgeland shares his own experiences inside and outside of government to spark more Americans to volunteer to meet urgent needs. He compellingly argues that such service is fundamental to our own happiness and to what the Founding Fathers envisioned when they talked about the “pursuit of Happiness” in the Declaration of Independence. Bridgeland helps the reader discover their own volunteer service mission and issues a rallying cry to the nation to heal our partisan divisions by joining together across party lines to address our toughest challenges.