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This chapter outlines the scope of the book. It introduces the “loose and baggy monster” of the UK voluntary, community and social enterprise sector and, using a Bourdieusian conceptual framework, introduces the links between how voluntary action has come to be defined in recent years and the neoliberal value system (orthodoxy) that underpins state policy.
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McGovern, P. (2017). Introduction. In: Small Voluntary Organisations in the 'Age of Austerity'. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52188-0_1
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