Leisure and the Motive to Volunteer: Theories of Serious, Casual, and Project-Based Leisure

by Robert A Stebbins and 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 volitional definition. By means of a lengthy literature review, this book sets out the theoretical and empirical contributions of the serious leisure perspective to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137585161
• ISBN13: 9781137585165
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"