Volunteering for all? Explaining patterns of volunteering and identifying strategies to promote it

Policy and Politics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 395-412

  Hardill, Irene ^a   Baines, Sue ^b   Perri, VI ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender; Motivation; Neo Durkheimian institutional theory; Volunteering

Indexed keywords

GENDER; THEORETICAL STUDY; VOLUNTARY APPROACH; WORKPLACE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547790870     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/030557307781571669     Document Type: Article

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