In this article, the authors consider the findings of a multi-year, case study-based research project on young workers and the labor movement in four countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The authors examine the conditions under which young workers actively engage in contemporary labor movements. Although the industrial relations context matters, the authors find the most persuasive explanations to be agency-based. Especially important are the relative openness and active encouragement of unions to the leadership development of young workers, and the persistence and creativity of groups of young workers in promoting their own engagement. Embodying labor’s potential for movement building and resistance to authoritarianism and right-wing populism, young workers offer hope for the future if unions can bring them aboard.

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劳工运动的新激进主义：青年工人参与的紧迫性

在本文中，作者考虑了一项基于案例研究的多年期研究项目的结果，该研究项目涉及四个国家的青年工人和劳工运动：法国、德国、英国和美国。作者研究了青年工人积极参与当代劳工运动的条件。尽管劳资关系背景很重要，但作者发现最有说服力的解释是基于代理的。尤其重要的是工会对青年工人领导力发展的相对开放和积极鼓励，以及青年工人群体在促进自身参与方面的坚持和创造力。体现劳工在运动建设和抵抗威权主义和右翼民粹主义方面的潜力，