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Making Pledges and Requirements: Historical Variants of "Voluntary Labor"

Institute for Labor Research, Budapest, Hungary

This study compares the logic of voluntarism during various of the distinguished phases of the European path of history in order to gain more insight into the functioning of infor mal social coordination. The scope and significance of voluntary work within society is related to the enhancement or depression of the social "lifeworld" . Informal social coor dination is conceived as filling a residual space in action coordination left behind by systemic integration. The conceptual approach is as comprehensive as an intended theory for reconsidering the place of voluntarism within the emerging paradigm of a "new welfare- mix" would require to be.

International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol. 26, No. 3-4, 209-220 (1985)
DOI: 10.1177/002071528502600306


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