Professor Young’s research and teaching interests are in social movements, revolution, labor, political economy, and imperialism in modern Latin America and the United States. His most recent book is Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won (PM Press, 2024). The book analyzes the power of the fossil fuel industry, how the climate and Indigenous movements have chipped away at it, and how other mass movements throughout U.S. history have defeated capitalists. His other books include Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia (2017), the edited volume Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left (2019), the coauthored book Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It (2020), and the coedited volume Trump and the Deeper Crisis (2022). Current research interests include revolutionary mobilization in El Salvador in the 1970s, the U.S.-Central America solidarity movement of the 1970s–90s, peasant politics in mid-twentieth-century Bolivia, and recent US climate politics.