Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic: The Case of Creative Industry

Risks of youth poverty in relation to employment have largely been overlooked both internationally and locally, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Moving beyond concepts income, economic factors in-work as applied general population, we examine multi-scalar risk confronting highly educated working (aged eighteen twenty-nine) Hong Kong by assessing intersection precarious poverty, which is crucial understanding poverty. Drawing on in-depth interview research creative workers, this study calls for reconceptualisation through lens employment, not viewed a separate entity, but an organic whole encompassing economic, social, psychological political terrains generating existential problem shaping young people’s sense future work-life meaning. This article sheds light policy implications high-educated suffering from industry.