Historical Development of the Third Sector Continuity and Change

2004 ◽  
pp. 73-115
Author(s):  
Benjamin Gidron ◽  
Michal Bar ◽  
Hagai Katz
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Sector

Contextualising the Third Sector

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Community Services ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Third Sector Organisations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Third Sector ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Governance Arrangements

This chapter defines the third sector, tracks the historical development and the contextual background of the sector and its governance arrangements. The history of the UK third sector dates back to the Act 1601, the Relief of the Poor, which offered relief to individuals who could not work, were cared for in alms houses or sent to work-houses (Murdock, 2006). Throughout the centuries, the sector continued to provide services for those that the state considered beyond its remit. With high unemployment and the reduction of welfare provision towards the end of the twentieth century the UK government developed polices to help third sector organisations to bid for contracts to deliver welfare, housing and community services. The chapter concludes with a discussion of academic perspectives on the existence of the sector and the distinctiveness between the third sector, private sector and public sector are explained.

scholarly journals Celebrating partnership working between the third sector and the NHS

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 724-725
Author(s):  
Alan Glasper
Keyword(s):  
Third Sector ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Sector

Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper, University of Southampton, discusses the success of partnerships between the third sector and the NHS, which is crucial to improving care for people in society.

Enterprising activism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Bassel ◽  
Akwugo Emejulu
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Minority Women ◽  
Enterprise Culture ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
The Third ◽  
Welfare Mix ◽  
Third Sector Organisations ◽  
The Third Sector ◽  
The Impact

In this chapter, we explore how the changing politics of the third sector under austerity problematises minority women’s intersectional social justice claims in Scotland, England and France. We begin by exploring the ‘governable terrain’ of the third sector in each country since the 1990s. As the principle of a ‘welfare mix’ becomes normalised in each country, the reality of having different welfare providers vying for state contracts seems to prompt isomorphic changes whereby third sector organisations refashion themselves in the image of the private sector as a necessity for survival. We then move on to discuss the impact these changes in the third sector are having on minority women’s activism. We analyse how the idea of enterprise has become entrenched within these organisations and how an enterprise culture is problematically reshaping the ways in which organisations think about their mission, practices and programmes of work—especially in relation to minority women. We conclude with a discussion about what the marketisation of the third sector means for minority women. We argue that political racelessness is enacted through enterprise as minority women’s interests are de-politicised and de-prioritised through the transformation of the third sector.

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