Nina Eliasoph
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691147093
- eISBN:
- 9781400838820
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691147093.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This chapter explains how the empowerment talk suggests that volunteering is good because it is soul-changing, which leads organizers to embrace this mission. Fulfilling this mission of deeply ...
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This chapter explains how the empowerment talk suggests that volunteering is good because it is soul-changing, which leads organizers to embrace this mission. Fulfilling this mission of deeply inspiring and transforming the volunteers, however, would be hard. Moreover, to fulfill the mission of helping needy volunteers themselves—youth who are “not the usual leader type,” who lack confidence—organizers have to make sure that volunteering seems easy. These two missions come into possible tension with each other, and with a third to complicate matters: helping others, which usually requires knowledge, or even expertise, and not just inspiration. There is thus a possible three-way dissonance between inspiring all of the volunteers, helping the needy volunteers, and having the expertise or know-how to help other people.Less
This chapter explains how the empowerment talk suggests that volunteering is good because it is soul-changing, which leads organizers to embrace this mission. Fulfilling this mission of deeply inspiring and transforming the volunteers, however, would be hard. Moreover, to fulfill the mission of helping needy volunteers themselves—youth who are “not the usual leader type,” who lack confidence—organizers have to make sure that volunteering seems easy. These two missions come into possible tension with each other, and with a third to complicate matters: helping others, which usually requires knowledge, or even expertise, and not just inspiration. There is thus a possible three-way dissonance between inspiring all of the volunteers, helping the needy volunteers, and having the expertise or know-how to help other people.
Cliff Zukin, Scott Keeter, Molly Andolina, Krista Jenkins, and Michael X. Delli Carpini
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195183177
- eISBN:
- 9780199850822
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195183177.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, this book challenges the conventional wisdom that today's ...
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In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, this book challenges the conventional wisdom that today's youth is plagued by a severe case of political apathy. In order to understand the current nature of citizen engagement, it is critical to separate political from civic engagement. Using the results from an original set of surveys and primary research, the book concludes that while older citizens participate by voting, young people engage by volunteering and being active in their communities.Less
In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, this book challenges the conventional wisdom that today's youth is plagued by a severe case of political apathy. In order to understand the current nature of citizen engagement, it is critical to separate political from civic engagement. Using the results from an original set of surveys and primary research, the book concludes that while older citizens participate by voting, young people engage by volunteering and being active in their communities.
Rosalind Scott and Steven Howlett (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199545827
- eISBN:
- 9780191730429
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545827.001.0001
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making, Palliative Medicine Research
This book provides practical guidelines on the responsibilities of those who lead, co-ordinate, and manage volunteers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general ...
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This book provides practical guidelines on the responsibilities of those who lead, co-ordinate, and manage volunteers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams. Volunteers are key workers, who often perform difficult and important work. In the United Kingdom alone there are thousands of volunteers in hospice work, a small proportion doing work with patients, and the vast majority doing equally valuable work such as driving, sitting with relatives, and manning charity shops and telephones. As a result, Europe, Australia, the United States and Canada are very interested in the United Kingdom's use of volunteers. Aimed primarily at Voluntary Services Managers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams, this updated second edition covers volunteer selection, training, supervision and support, and legal and ethical considerations.Less
This book provides practical guidelines on the responsibilities of those who lead, co-ordinate, and manage volunteers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams. Volunteers are key workers, who often perform difficult and important work. In the United Kingdom alone there are thousands of volunteers in hospice work, a small proportion doing work with patients, and the vast majority doing equally valuable work such as driving, sitting with relatives, and manning charity shops and telephones. As a result, Europe, Australia, the United States and Canada are very interested in the United Kingdom's use of volunteers. Aimed primarily at Voluntary Services Managers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams, this updated second edition covers volunteer selection, training, supervision and support, and legal and ethical considerations.
Nina Eliasoph
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691147093
- eISBN:
- 9781400838820
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691147093.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We have all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But ...
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Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We have all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? This book offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic programs. The book reveals an urgent need for policy reforms in order to improve these organizations and shows that while volunteers learn important lessons, they are not always the lessons that empowerment programs aim to teach. With short-term funding and a dizzy mix of mandates from multiple sponsors, community programs develop a complex web of intimacy, governance, and civic life. The book describes the at-risk youth served by such programs, the college-bound volunteers who hope to feel selfless inspiration and plump up their résumés, and what happens when the two groups are expected to bond instantly through short-term projects. The book looks at adult “plug-in” volunteers who, working in after-school programs and limited by time, hope to become like beloved aunties to youth. It indicates that adult volunteers can provide grassroots support but they can also undermine the family-like warmth created by paid organizers. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, the book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers. The book illustrates what these programs can and cannot achieve, and how to make them more effective.Less
Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We have all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? This book offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic programs. The book reveals an urgent need for policy reforms in order to improve these organizations and shows that while volunteers learn important lessons, they are not always the lessons that empowerment programs aim to teach. With short-term funding and a dizzy mix of mandates from multiple sponsors, community programs develop a complex web of intimacy, governance, and civic life. The book describes the at-risk youth served by such programs, the college-bound volunteers who hope to feel selfless inspiration and plump up their résumés, and what happens when the two groups are expected to bond instantly through short-term projects. The book looks at adult “plug-in” volunteers who, working in after-school programs and limited by time, hope to become like beloved aunties to youth. It indicates that adult volunteers can provide grassroots support but they can also undermine the family-like warmth created by paid organizers. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, the book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers. The book illustrates what these programs can and cannot achieve, and how to make them more effective.
Iain Mclean and Tom Lubbock
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199546954
- eISBN:
- 9780191720031
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546954.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, UK Politics
The Government of Ireland Bill and the Ulster Protestant revolt 1912–14. Bonar Law, Dicey, the Unionist Party, and illegal activity. Curragh ‘mutiny’ 1914. Larne gunrunning 1914.
The Government of Ireland Bill and the Ulster Protestant revolt 1912–14. Bonar Law, Dicey, the Unionist Party, and illegal activity. Curragh ‘mutiny’ 1914. Larne gunrunning 1914.
Michael W. Foley and Dean R. Hoge
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195188707
- eISBN:
- 9780199785315
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188707.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Worship communities play important roles in civil society, in a few cases promoting political engagement around homeland causes and immigrant issues. Many communities provide informal or formal ...
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Worship communities play important roles in civil society, in a few cases promoting political engagement around homeland causes and immigrant issues. Many communities provide informal or formal social services to their members; others focus their charitable activities on the needy in inner-city America or abroad. Needier immigrant communities tend primarily to their own, especially in family-style worship communities; others draw on denominational resources to provide for immigrant members and others in their surroundings. More affluent worship communities provide money, goods, and volunteers for causes outside their immediate communities. Circumstances of immigration, the demographic profile of worship communities, and their organizational cultures and religious ties thus explain the considerable variation in the civic presence of immigrant worship communities.Less
Worship communities play important roles in civil society, in a few cases promoting political engagement around homeland causes and immigrant issues. Many communities provide informal or formal social services to their members; others focus their charitable activities on the needy in inner-city America or abroad. Needier immigrant communities tend primarily to their own, especially in family-style worship communities; others draw on denominational resources to provide for immigrant members and others in their surroundings. More affluent worship communities provide money, goods, and volunteers for causes outside their immediate communities. Circumstances of immigration, the demographic profile of worship communities, and their organizational cultures and religious ties thus explain the considerable variation in the civic presence of immigrant worship communities.
Nina Eliasoph
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691147093
- eISBN:
- 9781400838820
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691147093.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This chapter takes a look at the adult volunteers who come to help in the summer and after-school homework programs studied in this volume. Adult volunteers' presence symbolize, in the funders' eyes, ...
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This chapter takes a look at the adult volunteers who come to help in the summer and after-school homework programs studied in this volume. Adult volunteers' presence symbolize, in the funders' eyes, that a program enjoys local grassroots support, so paid organizers cannot afford to shut out these volunteers. However, the chapter shows that when they come to the after-school programs for one or two hours a week for a few months or a year at most, their short-term, optional, sporadic efforts at creating intimate bonds with youth participants undermine the intimate atmosphere that a devoted paid organizer manages to create.Less
This chapter takes a look at the adult volunteers who come to help in the summer and after-school homework programs studied in this volume. Adult volunteers' presence symbolize, in the funders' eyes, that a program enjoys local grassroots support, so paid organizers cannot afford to shut out these volunteers. However, the chapter shows that when they come to the after-school programs for one or two hours a week for a few months or a year at most, their short-term, optional, sporadic efforts at creating intimate bonds with youth participants undermine the intimate atmosphere that a devoted paid organizer manages to create.
Austin Gee
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199261253
- eISBN:
- 9780191717543
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261253.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter details the development of volunteering. In its early stages, volunteering developed rapidly with seventy two volunteer infantry corps and thirty two yeomanry cavalry corps established ...
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This chapter details the development of volunteering. In its early stages, volunteering developed rapidly with seventy two volunteer infantry corps and thirty two yeomanry cavalry corps established by May 1794. The subsequent development of volunteering was linked with the state of the war and defensive forces.Less
This chapter details the development of volunteering. In its early stages, volunteering developed rapidly with seventy two volunteer infantry corps and thirty two yeomanry cavalry corps established by May 1794. The subsequent development of volunteering was linked with the state of the war and defensive forces.
Frédéric Mérand
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199533244
- eISBN:
- 9780191714474
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533244.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, European Union
Thanks to the integrated structures of the Atlantic Alliance and the growth of multinational interventions since the end of the Cold War, West European armed forces increasingly look like ...
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Thanks to the integrated structures of the Atlantic Alliance and the growth of multinational interventions since the end of the Cold War, West European armed forces increasingly look like multinational corporations: they operate on a global theatre; their manpower is international in outlook; and their governing structures are increasingly similar. Mutatis mutandis, they have moved towards small all-volunteer forces (or an all-volunteer core), covering a wide spectrum of tasks, and usually intervening in a multinational context in missions that are only loosely related to “national” defense. To a large extent, this international defense field stabilized around NATO institutions, rules, and social representations.Less
Thanks to the integrated structures of the Atlantic Alliance and the growth of multinational interventions since the end of the Cold War, West European armed forces increasingly look like multinational corporations: they operate on a global theatre; their manpower is international in outlook; and their governing structures are increasingly similar. Mutatis mutandis, they have moved towards small all-volunteer forces (or an all-volunteer core), covering a wide spectrum of tasks, and usually intervening in a multinational context in missions that are only loosely related to “national” defense. To a large extent, this international defense field stabilized around NATO institutions, rules, and social representations.
Austin Gee
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199261253
- eISBN:
- 9780191717543
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261253.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter discusses the selection of volunteers. Careful selection depended on the identification of loyalty. National and county administrators adopted several approaches to ensure that only ...
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This chapter discusses the selection of volunteers. Careful selection depended on the identification of loyalty. National and county administrators adopted several approaches to ensure that only trustworthy men were allowed to become volunteers. However, in practice, it was difficult to identify unambiguously and to differentiate it from support for the government.Less
This chapter discusses the selection of volunteers. Careful selection depended on the identification of loyalty. National and county administrators adopted several approaches to ensure that only trustworthy men were allowed to become volunteers. However, in practice, it was difficult to identify unambiguously and to differentiate it from support for the government.
Susan E. Scarrow
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198279181
- eISBN:
- 9780191600166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198279183.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Change in political party organizations can be characterized as movement along the dimensions of mediation, inclusiveness, and centralization. Among the reasons for parties to recruit are that ...
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Change in political party organizations can be characterized as movement along the dimensions of mediation, inclusiveness, and centralization. Among the reasons for parties to recruit are that members can provide their parties with legitimacy, votes, outreach, financial resources, volunteer labor, links to other organizations, new ideas, and candidates.Less
Change in political party organizations can be characterized as movement along the dimensions of mediation, inclusiveness, and centralization. Among the reasons for parties to recruit are that members can provide their parties with legitimacy, votes, outreach, financial resources, volunteer labor, links to other organizations, new ideas, and candidates.
Susan E. Scarrow
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198279181
- eISBN:
- 9780191600166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198279183.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
A closer look at the British and German parties in the 1950s and early 1960s casts some doubts on the proposition that party members provide drastically reduced benefits for their parties in the ...
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A closer look at the British and German parties in the 1950s and early 1960s casts some doubts on the proposition that party members provide drastically reduced benefits for their parties in the contemporary era. Although new campaign and communications techniques have made party members’ efforts relatively less important in some fields of party life, these innovations have not diminished members’ absolute contributions of energy and money, and they have not replaced party members as a source of democratic legitimacy.Less
A closer look at the British and German parties in the 1950s and early 1960s casts some doubts on the proposition that party members provide drastically reduced benefits for their parties in the contemporary era. Although new campaign and communications techniques have made party members’ efforts relatively less important in some fields of party life, these innovations have not diminished members’ absolute contributions of energy and money, and they have not replaced party members as a source of democratic legitimacy.
Nina Eliasoph
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691147093
- eISBN:
- 9781400838820
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691147093.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This chapter opens with a passionate dream of many organizers: to encourage youth volunteers to care about politics and “the big picture.” Doing so would require discussion and possibly lead to ...
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This chapter opens with a passionate dream of many organizers: to encourage youth volunteers to care about politics and “the big picture.” Doing so would require discussion and possibly lead to conflict, which most organizers consider depressing and difficult, not inspiring and easy. Yet there is hardly enough time for reflective discussions anyway. As such, the youth programs all merely conduct projects with which no humane person can disagree—gathering mittens and cans of tuna for the poor, but not asking why there is hunger, for example—thus severing any connection between civic volunteering and political engagement, and tending to breed, paradoxically, hopelessness about finding any solutions beyond one mitten at a time.Less
This chapter opens with a passionate dream of many organizers: to encourage youth volunteers to care about politics and “the big picture.” Doing so would require discussion and possibly lead to conflict, which most organizers consider depressing and difficult, not inspiring and easy. Yet there is hardly enough time for reflective discussions anyway. As such, the youth programs all merely conduct projects with which no humane person can disagree—gathering mittens and cans of tuna for the poor, but not asking why there is hunger, for example—thus severing any connection between civic volunteering and political engagement, and tending to breed, paradoxically, hopelessness about finding any solutions beyond one mitten at a time.
Austin Gee
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199261253
- eISBN:
- 9780191717543
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261253.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It considers what the volunteers achieved, and compares this with the purpose for which they were established. The volunteers of the ...
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This chapter presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It considers what the volunteers achieved, and compares this with the purpose for which they were established. The volunteers of the French wars provided a precedent for the organization of military activity well into the 19th century, though they left few obvious legacies until their revival in the 1860s, when the government was willing to countenance such an infantry force in peacetime.Less
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It considers what the volunteers achieved, and compares this with the purpose for which they were established. The volunteers of the French wars provided a precedent for the organization of military activity well into the 19th century, though they left few obvious legacies until their revival in the 1860s, when the government was willing to countenance such an infantry force in peacetime.
Austin Gee
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199261253
- eISBN:
- 9780191717543
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261253.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This introductory chapter begins with a brief description of the purpose of the book, which is to show how volunteers rapidly established themselves as a force of reliable defenders of the ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a brief description of the purpose of the book, which is to show how volunteers rapidly established themselves as a force of reliable defenders of the established order: not only how they contributed to national defence, but also how they helped create a sense of local and national unity and a loyalist consensus. It then characterizes the voluntary forces that were formed in England, Scotland, and Wales during the wars against the French republic and empire.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a brief description of the purpose of the book, which is to show how volunteers rapidly established themselves as a force of reliable defenders of the established order: not only how they contributed to national defence, but also how they helped create a sense of local and national unity and a loyalist consensus. It then characterizes the voluntary forces that were formed in England, Scotland, and Wales during the wars against the French republic and empire.
Austin Gee
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199261253
- eISBN:
- 9780191717543
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261253.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter discusses the emergence of the volunteer force. In March 1794 the government invited gentlemen to come forward and carry out plans for the security of the country that included the ...
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This chapter discusses the emergence of the volunteer force. In March 1794 the government invited gentlemen to come forward and carry out plans for the security of the country that included the formation of volunteer infantry and yeomanry cavalry corps. By the end of that year, 154 corps of volunteers and yeomen were formed for local defence against invasion. By late 1797 51,000 men had joined, rising to 116,000 in 1798 and 146,000 in 1801. At the height of volunteering in 1804, there were 380,258 enrolled. The force was the largest voluntary movement of the 18th century.Less
This chapter discusses the emergence of the volunteer force. In March 1794 the government invited gentlemen to come forward and carry out plans for the security of the country that included the formation of volunteer infantry and yeomanry cavalry corps. By the end of that year, 154 corps of volunteers and yeomen were formed for local defence against invasion. By late 1797 51,000 men had joined, rising to 116,000 in 1798 and 146,000 in 1801. At the height of volunteering in 1804, there were 380,258 enrolled. The force was the largest voluntary movement of the 18th century.
Austin Gee
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199261253
- eISBN:
- 9780191717543
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261253.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter shows that despite its appearance as a homogeneous organization, the volunteer force was in practice more like a federation of varied and disparate independent associations. The force ...
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This chapter shows that despite its appearance as a homogeneous organization, the volunteer force was in practice more like a federation of varied and disparate independent associations. The force was characterized by a mixture of central direction and independent local initiative. The volunteers were organized on three levels: within individual corps; within countries by the lords lieutenant and county committees; and nationally by the Home Office.Less
This chapter shows that despite its appearance as a homogeneous organization, the volunteer force was in practice more like a federation of varied and disparate independent associations. The force was characterized by a mixture of central direction and independent local initiative. The volunteers were organized on three levels: within individual corps; within countries by the lords lieutenant and county committees; and nationally by the Home Office.
Austin Gee
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199261253
- eISBN:
- 9780191717543
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261253.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter examines the motives for volunteering. Volunteering is often interpreted as a patriotic and nationalist response to the defence requirements of the state. However, questions have risen ...
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This chapter examines the motives for volunteering. Volunteering is often interpreted as a patriotic and nationalist response to the defence requirements of the state. However, questions have risen over whether patriotism was the dominant ethos in volunteering, particularly once material rewards became important in the large-scale mobilization of 1803. For many, volunteering involved a decision between military force and a range of non-military options, including insurance clubs and the hiring of a substitute to serve in a balloted force.Less
This chapter examines the motives for volunteering. Volunteering is often interpreted as a patriotic and nationalist response to the defence requirements of the state. However, questions have risen over whether patriotism was the dominant ethos in volunteering, particularly once material rewards became important in the large-scale mobilization of 1803. For many, volunteering involved a decision between military force and a range of non-military options, including insurance clubs and the hiring of a substitute to serve in a balloted force.
Austin Gee
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199261253
- eISBN:
- 9780191717543
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261253.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter shows that the volunteers' position between the military and civilian worlds forced them to define their position with regard to both. On the whole, they emphasized their civilian ...
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This chapter shows that the volunteers' position between the military and civilian worlds forced them to define their position with regard to both. On the whole, they emphasized their civilian status. They adopted the ideal of citizen-soldier, believing that it had been abandoned by the militia, which during the wars had weakened its territorial basis and became increasingly a recruiting reserve for the regular army. Principal among the features of this self-image was that, though carrying the same duties as professional soldiers, they remained fundamentally civilians with all the liberties that entailed.Less
This chapter shows that the volunteers' position between the military and civilian worlds forced them to define their position with regard to both. On the whole, they emphasized their civilian status. They adopted the ideal of citizen-soldier, believing that it had been abandoned by the militia, which during the wars had weakened its territorial basis and became increasingly a recruiting reserve for the regular army. Principal among the features of this self-image was that, though carrying the same duties as professional soldiers, they remained fundamentally civilians with all the liberties that entailed.
Austin Gee
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199261253
- eISBN:
- 9780191717543
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261253.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter shows that volunteers were as much a threat to the existing order as they were a bastion against invasion and insurrection. Some apprehended constitutional and social threats to both the ...
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This chapter shows that volunteers were as much a threat to the existing order as they were a bastion against invasion and insurrection. Some apprehended constitutional and social threats to both the state and society in what they saw as the democratic organization of volunteers.Less
This chapter shows that volunteers were as much a threat to the existing order as they were a bastion against invasion and insurrection. Some apprehended constitutional and social threats to both the state and society in what they saw as the democratic organization of volunteers.
