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Rediscovering Voluntary Action This page intentionally left blank Rediscovering Voluntary Action The Beat of a Different Drum Colin Rochester Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon,UK ©ColinRochester2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-02944-7 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedhisrighttobeidentifiedastheauthorofthiswork inaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2013by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-137-02945-4 ISBN 978-1-137-02946-1 (eBook) DOI10.1057/9781137029461 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. Contents ListofFiguresandTables vii Acknowledgements viii ListofAbbreviations x 1 Introduction:WhytheTheoryandPracticeofVoluntary ActionNeedRethinking 1 Part I TheContext 2 RevisitingtheRootsofVoluntaryAction 15 3 TheInventionoftheVoluntarySectorandits Consequences 36 4 TheInventionofVoluntaryWorkanditsConsequences 53 Part II PressuresandInfluences 5 APerilousPartnership?VoluntaryActionandtheState 69 6 SellingOut?VoluntaryActionandtheMarket 85 7 TheHegemonyoftheBureaucraticModel 99 8 ThePressurefromWithin 112 Part III AlternativePerspectives 9 Governance,OwnershipandControl 133 10 WhatIsVoluntaryActionFor? 147 11 TheFallaciesofManagerialism 161 12 Towardsa‘RoundEarth’MapofVolunteering 176 13 DissentingVoices:TheCaseoftheNationalCoalitionfor IndependentAction 189 v vi Contents Part IV ConclusionsandImplications 14 TheParadoxofSectorisation 205 15 TowardsanAlternativeParadigm 216 16 TheImplicationsofRethinkingVoluntaryAction 231 References 245 Index 258 Figures and Tables Figures 7.1 ThetraditionalABCmodel 101 7.2 TheBillis‘worlds’theory 107 12.1 Athreeperspectivesmodel 181 Tables 15.1 Theconventionalorganisationalmodel 221 16.1 Asectortypology 236 vii Acknowledgements IcouldnothavewrittenthisbookwithouttheeducationIhavereceived atthehandsofmanypeople–fartoomanytoacknowledgeproperly– duringthe45yearsIhaveworkedwithvolunteersandvoluntaryorgan- isations. In my early years, as a practitioner, I benefitted from working withaseriesofinspiringcolleagues–intheWorkers’EducationalAsso- ciation (WEA), at Cambridge House and Talbot Settlement and in the wider networks of the British Association of Settlements and Social ActionCentre(BASSAC) andthevoluntarysector inSouthwark.Inmy secondcareerasaresearcherandteacherIhavehadthegreatgoodfor- tunetoworkwithcolleaguesattheLondonSchoolofEconomics(LSE) CentreforVoluntaryOrganisation,atRoehamptonUniversityandwith theInstituteforVolunteeringResearchaswellasinthreeassociationsof researchers–theAssociationforResearchonVoluntaryAction(ARVAC); theVoluntarySectorStudiesNetwork(VSSN);andtheVoluntaryAction History Society (VAHS). And my thinking has been shaped by fruitful encounters with a series of students who have taught me more than Imanagedtoteachthem–inWEAclassesandinpostgraduatecourses attheLSEandatRoehampton. I hope the many who remain unmentioned by name will not mind ifIsingleoutasmallernumberofpeoplewhohavemademorespecific contributions to the development of the book. In the first place, my intellectual debt to David Billis will be clear to the reader and I count myself very fortunate indeed to have enjoyed his support and encour- agementasteacher,colleague,mentorandfriend.IfDavidhasprovided me with the means of writing the book, others have given me valu- ableassistanceinconvertingavagueaspirationintothefinishedarticle. IreceivedagreatdealofinitialencouragementfromJurgenGrotz,who proddedmeuntilIhaddevelopedtheoriginaloutlinefortheworkand provided me with an early platform for sharing some of my ideas at anARVACevent.IamgratefultoAndyBensonandPennyWaterhouse for their enthusiastic support and, with other members of NCIA, for their contribution to the series of seminars at Roehampton University where I clarified and tested my thinking. I should also like to thank the other friends and colleagues who took part in these critical discus- sions.IamverymuchindebtedtomyformercolleaguesatRoehampton, viii Acknowledgements ix Steven Howlett and Bill Rushbrooke, who, as well as providing general encouragementandsupport,havehelpedinveryspecificandpractical ways. Steven took on the lion’s share of organising the seminar series andBillreviewedtheoriginaldraftofmymanuscript.Mypartner,Meta Zimmeck, has been a tower of strength and a candid critic: she has readthemanuscriptwithgreatcare,suggestingimprovementstoitand eliminating a number of blemishes, as well as helping me through the darktimeswhenIwonderedifIwouldevercompletethetaskIhadset myself. Finally, I need to add the conventional but necessary caveat: any errors of fact, judgement or taste in what follows are the sole responsibilityoftheauthor.
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