European Labour History Network (ELHN)

ELHN Conference 2026 Barcelona
Prepare for the upcoming ELHN conference in Barcelona, Spain, in June 2026. More details will follow.

The European Labour History Network is organized around working groups consisting of researchers working on the same topics or in the same area. The Network organizes a bi-annual conference, with contributions from around the world. 

For information on the ELHN, contact elhn@iisg.nl

News ELHN

CfP: Working Group Workers' Education, ELHN Conference 2026: Perspectives on Workers’ Education
Call for papers, deadline 1 August 2025
16/05/2025
CfP: Working Group Industrial and Economic Democracy, ELHN Conference 2026: Economic Democracy and Beyond: Re-thinking the role of democratic participation in industry and the economy, past and present
Call for Papers, deadline 15 July 2025
14/05/2025
CfP The body and health in feminist labour history
Call for papers, deadline 15 November 2025
05/05/2025
CFP Working Group Feminist Labour History, ELHN Conference 2026: The spaces of work and labour: Gendered perspectives on the local and the global
Call for papers, deadline 1 July 2025
05/05/2025
CFP Working Group Labour and Empire, ELHN Conference 2026: Precarity and Scale in the History of Colonial Labour
Call for papers, deadline 30 June 2025
05/05/2025
CfP Working Group Labour and Coercion, ELHN Conference 2026
Call for papers, ***EXTENDED DEADLINE*** 15 July 2025
08/04/2025
Work and the Balkans, special issue of the Études Balkaniques (en français)
Call for articles, deadline 18 April 2025
05/04/2025
Workers of the World journal theme issue: Palestine, and global resistance to genocide
Call for articles, deadline 15 May 2025
05/04/2025
Workers of the World journal theme issue: Education, what, for whom, how
Call for articles, deadline 15 July 2025
05/04/2025
Port identities - Identités portuaires
Publication (in French)
05/02/2025
Control and punishment devices: 3rd International Conference on History of Prison and Punitive Institutions
Call for papers, deadline 14 March 2025
23/12/2024
New publication: Les dockers du Havre, de la révolution à nos jours (French)
Book publication
06/11/2024
Vacancies at IISH: Postdoc Slavery and Junior Resarcher HTR
Vacanies, deadline 13 October 2024
07/10/2024
Mouvements protestataires, contestations politiques et luttes sociales en Grande-Bretagne (1811- 1914) - Protest movements, political dissent and social struggles in Britain, 1811-1914
Conference, 31 January 2025 (in French)
07/10/2024
Contemporary Hungarian Society: Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism, by Tibor Valuch
Book publication
02/10/2024
CfP International Congress “Families and Historical Change. Relational Dynamics and Social Transformations. A global perspective, 13th-20th centuries”
Call for papers, deadlines 15 October 2024 and 15 Januray 2025
24/09/2024
CfP: 17th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries
Call for papers, deadline 15 December 2024
20/09/2024
Special Issue 'Technological Change, Mechanisation, and the Reactions of Craftsmen and Workers in Mediterranean Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries'
Publication
10/09/2024
New Issue Open Access Journal 'Workers of the World'
Publication
06/09/2024
CfP: Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies: Perspectives from Asia, Past & Present
Call for papers, deadline 31 October 2024
06/09/2024