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A Social History of Student VolunteeringExperiments in Living: Student Social Service and Social Action, 1950–1965

A Social History of Student Volunteering: Experiments in Living: Student Social Service and... [A meeting held in February 1948 to decide how to allocate the balance of prewar funds of the Cambridge branch of the Universities’ Camps for the Unemployed, concluded that “no form of social service in England now appealed to undergraduates in the way unemployed camps appealed to them before the war; and that what undergraduates wanted was to work abroad, in Germany and other European countries.”1 While reconstruction efforts did have strong appeal, such pronouncements on the death of domestic student voluntarism were to prove premature, and in time students’ experience of overseas service was to inject new life into voluntary action in universities and colleges in Britain. Contrary to initial fears within the voluntary sector, the increase in state-provided welfare from the 1940s opened up more rather than fewer opportunities for volunteering. Although sometimes seen as a “forgotten decade” between the upheaval of world war and the significant social and cultural changes of the 1960s, this chapter shows that the 1950s marked the beginning of a new wave of student social action on a range of international and domestic issues, including juvenile delinquency, apartheid and antiracism, refugee students, and the antinuclear movement. There were innovations in domestic student volunteering in the 1950s—particularly in the field of youth work—that laid the groundwork for bigger shifts in the later 1960s.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Social History of Student VolunteeringExperiments in Living: Student Social Service and Social Action, 1950–1965

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
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978-1-349-47523-0
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155 –174
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10.1057/9781137363770_9
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[A meeting held in February 1948 to decide how to allocate the balance of prewar funds of the Cambridge branch of the Universities’ Camps for the Unemployed, concluded that “no form of social service in England now appealed to undergraduates in the way unemployed camps appealed to them before the war; and that what undergraduates wanted was to work abroad, in Germany and other European countries.”1 While reconstruction efforts did have strong appeal, such pronouncements on the death of domestic student voluntarism were to prove premature, and in time students’ experience of overseas service was to inject new life into voluntary action in universities and colleges in Britain. Contrary to initial fears within the voluntary sector, the increase in state-provided welfare from the 1940s opened up more rather than fewer opportunities for volunteering. Although sometimes seen as a “forgotten decade” between the upheaval of world war and the significant social and cultural changes of the 1960s, this chapter shows that the 1950s marked the beginning of a new wave of student social action on a range of international and domestic issues, including juvenile delinquency, apartheid and antiracism, refugee students, and the antinuclear movement. There were innovations in domestic student volunteering in the 1950s—particularly in the field of youth work—that laid the groundwork for bigger shifts in the later 1960s.]

Published: Nov 4, 2015

Keywords: Social History; Voluntary Organization; Voluntary Sector; Student Volunteer; Youth Work

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