Volunteers for development: a test of the post-materialist hypothesis in Britain. c. 1965–1987

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Volunteering by young adults for working in Third World countries on development projects emerged in Britain the late 1950s. Three decades later, the country's largest volunteering sending agency, Voluntary Service Overseas, had sent more than 21,000 people abroad. The most common explanation for the emergence and growth of what is a small social movement is the affluence-value change theory, or Post-Materialism, which predicts that variations in the growth of the movement should vary positiv...

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Authors: Braham, M

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: University of Oxford Publisher's website
• Series: Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers
• Article number: 30
• Place of publication: Oxford
• Publication date: 1999-06-01
• Paper number: 30
• Language: English