Leisure and the motive to volunteer : theories of serious, casual, and project-based leisure / Robert A. Stebbins.
Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic terms, with volunteering being referred to as "unpaid (productive) work". This economic definition has been around far longer than that of volunteering conceived of as leisure, which is discussed as the vo...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Volunteering: What Is It?
- 3. Definitions of Volunteering
- 4. Career (Serious Leisure) Volunteering
- 5.A Review of Research
- 6. Two Notable Research Gaps
- 7.Organized Study of Serious Leisure Volunteering
- 8. Conclusion.