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

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
CfP: 50th anniversary of the European Trade Union Confederation (1973-2023)
Call for papers, deadline 30 May 2023
05/05/2023
CfP: Military Labour History at the ELHN Conference, 2024
Call for papers, deadline 31 July 2023
02/05/2023
CfP Precarious Labour - Fifth ELHN Conference - Open Call for Proposals
Call for proposals, deadline 1 September 2023
25/04/2023
CfP: Mining Mobilities across the Globe. Labour, Science, and Knowledge Circulation in Mining (15th-21st century)
Call for papers, *EXTENDED DEADLINE* 30 June 2023
18/04/2023
CfP: Feminist Labour History - Fifth ELHN Conference
Call for proposals, EXTENDED DEADLINE 20 July 2023
06/04/2023
CfA: The neoliberal turn and the history of everyday life in Central and Eastern Europe
Call for Articles, deadline 31 August 2023
05/04/2023
CfP: Workshop Ethnic Identities and Industrial Memory
Call for papers, extended deadline: 31 May 2023
05/04/2023
CfP: A Historical Casebook of Wage Formation: Wage determination and wage bargains of the pre industrial world
Call for papers, deadline 17 April 2023
14/03/2023
New ELHN Working Group on Precarious Labour
Announcement
08/03/2023
CfP: Households as Coercive Labour Regimes
Call for papers, deadline 25 March 2023
17/03/2023
CfP: Race relations and racism in the worlds of labor
Call for papers, deadline 1 July 2023
Newsletter UIA´s World of Associations
Relaunch of newsletter
CfA: Classicism and War in the 20th Century - EXTENDED DEADLINE
Call for Articles, extended deadline 12 June 2023
Special issue "Social and environmental effects of mining in Southern Europe"
Publication (Open Access)
Marx and Le Capital: Evaluation, History, Reception
Announcement of publication
CfP: Journal for the History of Environment and Society: Special issue ‘Science and Environmental Activism’
Call for papers, deadline 1 February 2023
CfP: Book series “Critique and Alternatives to Capitalism”
Call for proposals