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Between State and Market: The Non-Profit Workforce in a Changing Local Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2011

Sophie Bowlby  and
Sally Lloyd Evans
Sophie Bowlby
Affiliation:
Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading E-mail: s.r.bowlby@reading.ac.uk
Sally Lloyd Evans
Affiliation:
Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading E-mail: s.lloyd-evans@reading.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article explores some impacts of relationships between the third sector, the state and the market on the non-profit sector workforce in Reading, England. We argue that: the growth of state influence has brought forth paid and unpaid workers to represent the sector to the state; in most non-profit organisations paid workers create the conditions for unpaid work. For a minority the opposite is true; labour in the non-profit sector is influenced by competition from the private sector for workers and ‘clients’; workers’ paid work, family commitments and market services limit volunteering, especially for what we term ‘lifestage’ volunteers.

Type
Themed Section on Remixing the Economy of Welfare? Changing Roles and Relationships between the State and the Voluntary and Community Sector
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , July 2011 , pp. 417 - 427
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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