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: 59th ITH Conference - Worlds of Digital Labour
Call for Papers, deadline 26 January 2024
10/10/2023
CfP: Strike Activity in the 21st Century: Implications of the Recent Global Upsurge
Call for Papers, deadline 20 November 2023 EXTENDED
09/10/2023
CfP: Transfers of socialism between France and Great Britain
Call for Papers, deadline 1 October 2023
18/09/2023
CfP: Participation at Work: The History of Economic and Industrial Democracy
Call for papers, deadline 26 September 2023
17/08/2023
CfP: Elsewhere. The Migration of Families in the Past from a Labour History and Family Economy Perspective (18th-19th Century)
Call for Papers, deadline 10 September 2023
01/08/2023
CfP: Labour, gender and social mobility during the industrialization
Call for Papers, deadline 10 September 2023
01/08/2023
CfP: Women of the Waterfront. Gendering ports, careers, relations and (everyday) life trajectories in Modern times  
Call for papers, deadline 15 September 2023
23/07/2023
CfC: Nested internationalisms: New Perspectives on Labour Activism Across Borders and Boundaries
Call for contributions, deadline 15 August 2023
13/07/2023
CfP: Unstable stability? Working class-life and the world of work in East-Central Europe after 1989-1990
Call for Papers, deadline 30 September 2023
13/07/2023
CfP: Mining and Agriculture relationships: Influences on labour organisation and labour markets
Call for Papers, deadline 15 September 2023
12/07/2023
CfP: Working-Class Anti-Imperialism, the Global Left and Beyond
Call for Papers, REVISED DEADLINE 15 September 2023
12/07/2023
CfP ELHN Working Group Maritime Labour History
Call for Papers, deadline 6 september 2023
06/07/2023
CfP: (Re)thinking Africa’s image for the development of the continent
Call for Papers, deadline 30 September 2023
04/07/2023
CfP ELHN Working Group Workplaces Pasts and Presents: Layering and connecting space: a view from the workplace
Call for Papers, deadline 15 August 2023
04/07/2023
CfP ELHN Working Group Labour and Family Economy: Labour and Old Age / Labouring Elderly
Call for Papers, EXTENDED DEADLINE 10 September 2023
04/07/2023
CfP ELHN Working group Arctic and Indigenous labour
Call for papers, deadline 1 September 2023
28/06/2023
CfP: Guest-workers of the World
Call for papers, deadline 5 September 2023
26/06/2023
CfPs: Labour & Coercion at the 5th ELHN Conference
Call for papers, deadline 20 August 2023
12/06/2023
Working-class Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Directions of Study
Workshop, 30 June 2023, Bristol
02/06/2023
CfP: Visual and Material Histories of Military Labour
Call for Proposals, deadline 14 August 2023
24/05/2023