Strategy Mix for Nonprofit Organisations : Vehicles for Social and Labour Market Integrations /

In many countries, particularly in continental Europe, societies have been plagued by high unemployment for several decades. Simultaneously, due to recent shifts from industrial to service-oriented post-industrial societies, labor as a significant culture code is increasingly loosing importance. Bec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zimmer, Annette
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Stecker, Christina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2004.
Series:Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies, An International Multidisciplinary Series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Nonprofit-Sector and Social Integration
  • Changing Focus or Changing Role?- The Swedish Nonprofit Sector in the New Millennium, The Mainstreaming of the Third Sector into UK Public Policy in the late 1990s: Whys and Wherefores
  • The Role of the Third Sector in the Netherlands
  • The Transformation of Social Services in the United States
  • The Voluntary Sector, Community Sector and Social Economy in Canada: Why one is not the Other
  • Labour Concepts and Market Integration
  • The Third Sector in France and the Labour Market Policy
  • Workforce Development in the United States: key Legislative Initiatives and the Roles of the Private and Nonprofit Sectors
  • The Third Sector and Labour Market Policy in Germany
  • A Third Way to Employment and Integration?- Social Enterprises in Europe between Workfare and Welfare
  • The Quality of Nonprofit Employment: Patterns and Dynamics of Work Organization in the German Third Sector
  • State, Economy and Nonprofits: Does the Third Sector Change Gender Structures?- Combination of Gainful Employment and Voluntary Work of Employees: Problems and Possibilities
  • The Third Sector in Europe: Five Theses.