Making volunteers : civic life after welfare's end /

"Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-...

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Author / Creator: Eliasoph, Nina.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
Series:Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
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