This research applied Bourdieusian field theory to explain the forms of resistance exercised by single mothers exposed to the cultural and economic domination of Australian welfare-to-work policy. The mothers were affected by policy changes that reduced their social security benefit income and brought them into the field of activation policies. Unlike other studies focusing on well-being effects, this study focused on understanding resistance, that is, how welfare subjects like single mothers exercise resistance in dominating contexts. Bourdieusian field theory was applied to explain these resistances as a reaction to a social policy reclassification and to identity the enabling resources for it. This article observes the conditions that enabled single mothers to convert individual forms of resistance into collective action. In this respect, Husu’s adaptation of Bourdieusian field theory to social movement studies provided insight into how dominating fields like those of activation policy, generate resistances and social movements.

这项研究应用布迪厄斯场论来解释单身母亲在澳大利亚福利-工作政策的文化和经济支配下所采取的抵抗形式。母亲们受到政策变化的影响，这些变化减少了她们的社会保障福利收入，并将她们带入了激活政策领域。与其他关注幸福感影响的研究不同，本研究侧重于理解阻力，即单身母亲等福利主体如何在主导环境中锻炼阻力。布迪厄场域理论被应用于将这些阻力解释为对社会政策重新分类的反应，并确定其启用资源。本文观察了使单身母亲能够将个人形式的抵抗转化为集体行动的条件。在这方面，