The conclusion argues that, despite its limitations, in terms of its scale, dependence on trade unions, and direct effects, the Apprentice Movement is to be recognised as a substantial component of the social upheavals of the time. It was a rare instance of the collective agency of learners in work-based training in Germany. It led directly to a substantial increase in apprentice pay in organised metalworking. It caused some instability in a training system that is widely depicted in terms of institutional resilience. The instability was however bounded: the pay increase that the movement precipitated did not go so far as to endanger the viability of apprenticeship. Moreover, the boost that the movement gave to the public regulation of training quality contributed to the longer-term improvement of training standards. The partial nature of that improvement and uncertainty about its scale point however to the desirability of a further investigation of the experiences of apprentices, such as the type of survey that confirmed the complaints of activists at the time.