Editorial: PPP Special Issue – Contemporary Youth: Precarity, Resistance and (Re)Imagined Futures

Disengaged youth? Exploring the lives of ‘hidden NEETs’ outside the benefits system

“…The long-term trend of increased labour market precarity has gathered pace since the GFC resulting in 'growing insecurity of working life for young adults in the UK' (MacDonald and Giazitzoglu, 2019;725). The unequal burden of precarious employment disproportionately impacts young working-class people and in turn forms 'a web of precarity in which many young people need to navigate the stress of not knowing when their next payday will be, how they will pay for their living costs and how they will move towards a more stable future' (Devany et al, 2020).…”