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Volunteering is an unpaid non-compulsory work, that is, the time individuals give without pay to activities performed either through an organization or directly for others outside their own household.
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Volunteering is an important phenomenon worldwide. Volunteers provide essential social services, create and promote arts and culture, and contribute to associational life. Volunteering is an important form of social capital; volunteers contribute to civil society; volunteers form social movements and carry out political advocacy. Volunteers form an important part of the workforce, and in poor countries volunteers are an important part of economic development; the International Labor Organization has recognized the importance of volunteering and is the source of the definition above (Butcher and Einolf 2016). In addition to being a means to these ends, volunteering is an end in itself, as it brings people together in...
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Einolf, C.J. (2016). Volunteers and Volunteer Management. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2595-1
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