Includes bibliographical references.

Can youth be defined? / René Laurentin -- Contemporary youth movements in Europe and America / Barbara Hargrove -- Even a good education gives rise to problems / Paul Kapteyn -- Unemployment and young people in the Netherlands / Kees Kwant -- An analysis of youth unemployment and future prospects for jobs / Al Hatton -- The effect of being out of work on young people in Chile / Juan Andrés Peretiatkowicz -- Youth malaise and religion / Miklós Tomka -- And so to bed / Eileen Barker -- Young people and the nuclear threat / Michael Warren -- Youth in the World Council of Churches / Ans Joachim van der Bent -- The challenge of youth / Jacques Grand'maison.