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The field of volunteerism spends inordinate amounts of time arguing the finer
points of just what is and what is not volunteering. Most readers are familiar
with a range of concepts that strive to ‘define’ volunteering. Such concepts include
volunteering being conducted
- without coercion,
- without monetary reward,
and
- for the benefit of the community.
However, a much more fundamental question
was posed recently on both the OzVPM (Australasia) and UKVPMs (United Kingdom)
newsgroups, causing quite a reaction, and prompting us to share the thoughts of
respondents with you all through this Keyboard Roundtable forum.
The question was, quite simply: ‘Is volunteering work or leisure?’
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