The principle focus of this e-book is to examine how aspects of voluntary sector employment are being affected by its engagement with the growing trend of towards the state sponsored market-based outsourcing of the delivery of public services. These papers largely highlight how a combination of NPM-inspired policies and the 'credit crunch' threaten the missions of voluntary sector organisations, as well as workforce morale, retention and the work this sector undertakes with some of society's most socially excluded citizens.