Unpaid care, welfare conditionality and expropriation

Welfare conditionality where social security payments are conditional on recipients undertaking tasks such as training, submitting job applications and taking part in “work-like” activities, is an enduring punitive feature of contemporary welfare provision global North economics. In Australia, or mutual obligation it commonly referred to, continually targeted at specific groups single women First Nations women. Drawing fifteen in-depth interviews with put a program Australia called ParentsNext, I examine the relationship between expropriation women's unpaid care work. argue that non-First women, reinforces intensifies work, well settler colonial expropriation. The work under ParentsNext four notable ways–through requirements, stigma, privatization community services assisting ongoing