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 in global North economics. In Australia, welfare conditionality or mutual obligation as it is commonly referred to, is continually targeted at specific groups such as single women and First Nations women. Drawing on fifteen in-depth interviews with women put on a mutual obligation program in Australia called ParentsNext, I examine the relationship between mutual obligation and the expropriation of women's unpaid care work. I argue that welfare conditionality targeted at First Nations women and non-First Nations women, reinforces and intensifies the expropriation of women's unpaid care work, as well as settler colonial expropriation. The expropriation of women's unpaid care work intensifies under ParentsNext in four notable ways–through punitive mutual obligation requirements, stigma, the privatization of community services and assisting ongoing settler colonial expropriation.

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无偿照料、福利条件和征用

福利条件，即社会保障支付以接受者承担诸如培训、提交工作申请和参加“类似工作”的活动等任务为条件，是全球北方经济中当代福利提供的持久惩罚性特征。在澳大利亚，通常所说的福利条件或相互义务一直针对特定群体，例如单身女性和原住民女性。通过对澳大利亚一项名为“ParentsNext”的相互义务项目的女性进行的 15 次深入访谈，我考察了相互义务与剥夺女性无偿照料工作之间的关系。我认为，针对原住民妇女和非原住民妇女的福利条件强化并加剧了对妇女的剥夺 的无偿照料工作，以及定居者的殖民征用。在ParentsNext 下，对女性无偿照料工作的征收以四种显着的方式加剧——通过惩罚性的相互义务要求、污名化、社区服务私有化和协助持续的定居者殖民征用。