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

Women, Work, and Activism. Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century
Announcement of publication
Deindustrialisation in Twentieth-Century Europe: The Northwest of Italy and the Ruhr Region in Comparison
Announcement of publication
A Cultural History of Work
Announcement of publication
CfP: 58th ITH Conference. Deindustrialization, Reindustrialization and Economic Transitions – Transnational Perspectives from Labour History
Call for papers, deadline 31 January 2023
CfP: The circulation of ideas and practices regarding workplace democracy in Europe and beyond, from WWII to the present
Call for papers, deadline 31 January 2023
CfP: WORCK Conference 3: Historicising Coercive Social Processes
Call for papers, *NEW* deadline 15 February 2023
CfP: Working-Class Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Directions of Study
Call for articles, deadline 30 November 2022
24/10/2022
Women’s transnational activism in the Twentieth Century: framing the Chinese case in a global perspective
Conference, Venice and online, 21 October 2022
13/10/2022
Workplaces: Pasts and Presents Takes the Digital Turn
Special issue, September 2022
07/10/2022
ELHN Labour & Empire Working Group Seminar Series
Seminars, 2 November 2022 - 15 March 2023
06/10/2022
CfP: 2023 Tallinn Dissertation Prize in European Environmental History
Call for submissions, deadline EXTENDED 31 January 2023
19/09/2022
Women's maritime work in the Upper Adriatic region with a focus on the two post-WW periods (WeCanIt)
Blog publication
08/07/2022
Workplaces Exhibits
Call for exhibits
22/06/2022
Transnational capital and the Bangladesh garment industry: interview with Dina Siddiqi
Podcast, 14 May 2022
14/06/2022
Global History of Home-Based Work 1800-2021
Hybrid seminar, 13 June 2022
10/06/2022
Virtual Roundtable “Doing Labour History within the ELHN Working Groups”
Workshop, 7 April 2022
05/04/2022
Journées d’études « Petites industries », travail des femmes et diversité des chemins de l’industrialisation dans l’Europe méditerranéenne
Workshop, 31 March - 1 April 2022
30/03/2022
CfP: Compulsory Labour in Premodern Rural Europe
Call for papers, deadline 8 april 2022
22/03/2022
GLHN Third Conference Senegal: POSTPONED
New Call for Papers: 31 July 2022
04/03/2022
CfP: ESSHC 2023: Labour History Network
Call for sessions and papers, deadline 15 April 2022
22/02/2022