Making Volunteers: Civic Life after Welfare's End (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)

by NinaEliasoph (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $60.27

  Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, this book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers.