Making Volunteers: Civic Life after Welfares End (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)

Making Volunteers: Civic Life after Welfare's End and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous.
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Cite this Email this Add to favourites Print this page. Catalogue Persistent Identifier https: Others may not have this commitment, which should both change their organizational style and minimize some of the indirect benefits of dealing however imperfectly with inequality and diversity. A stronger analysis of variation in organizational styles would be a useful complement to this interpretation.

Second, the analysis is rich but sometimes belabored, particularly in a chapter on the meanings of food and several sections that slice diversity talk from similar angles. Finally, the decision to relegate most theoretical material to the endnotes makes the links between this study and other treatments of nonprofits, diversity talk, and organizational culture somewhat opaque. The book is written to appeal to a general audience but should be of particular interest to many organizational scholars and practitioners.

Making Volunteers: Civic Life after Welfare's End

It is especially relevant to those studying or leading organizations that seek to blend multiple missions, to integrate participants across racial, ethnic, or class boundaries, or to empower their participants in some way. For these readers, the book provides many valuable interpretive nuggets, as well as exhibiting a keen eye for detecting empty talk and gesture.

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The book would also make an excellent addition to syllabi on contemporary nonprofit organizations, especially if used in tandem with material on the resource streams that underlie the tensions of empowerment projects. Skip to main content. Vol 57, Issue 1, pp. There's a problem loading this menu right now.

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