Abstract
This article acknowledges the important contribution that Gurminder Bhambra’s article makes by using her concept of the imperial relations of extraction as a springboard to revisit the development of domestic social policies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The paper analyses this development in terms of the intersecting relations of extraction, exploitation, expropriation, and expulsion which mark a continuing domestic colonialism in welfare settlements since the early twentieth century. This is illustrated with reference to three ‘moments’ of welfare settlement—social imperialism of the early decades of the twentieth century, the post-war settlement, and austerity welfare. The analysis also exemplifies how these relations reproduced forms of white privilege to social rights and norms while also drawing other marginalized welfare subjects into their practices and rhetorics of subordination.