Drawing on interviews with welfare claimants living in Essex, UK, this article examines the material and symbolic effects of the UK government’s 2012 Welfare Reform Act, and it highlights the participants’ interpretations of and responses to that. In reaction to their sense of material and symbolic exclusion, participants made moral claims for their inclusion through a notion of social citizenship based on collective reciprocity and care. They claimed to have paid-in to the national purse in various material and moral ways until circumstances outside of their control meant they could no longer do so. They thus asserted a moral-economic right to social inclusion and an ensuing right to receive adequate, non-stigmatised, and non-punitive welfare. These moral-economic claims differ from other, more public, counter-narratives to welfare reform and government austerity, and they assert a clear but subtle opposition to the market-bound logic of the reform.

本文通过对居住在英国埃塞克斯郡的福利申请者的采访，考察了英国政府 2012 年福利改革法案的实质性和象征性影响，并强调了参与者对此的解释和回应。作为对他们的物质和象征排斥感的反应，参与者通过基于集体互惠和关怀的社会公民概念提出道德要求。他们声称已经以各种物质和道德方式向国家钱包付款，直到超出他们控制范围的情况意味着他们无法再这样做。因此，他们主张社会包容的道德经济权利以及随之而来的获得适当、非污名化和非惩罚性福利的权利。这些道德经济主张不同于其他更公开的、.