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: Military Labour History at the ELHN-WORCK Conference 2021
Call for papers, deadline 20 September 2020
31/08/2020
CfP: Impact of mining: economic activities, labour markets, living conditions, environmental problems (18th-21st century) at the ELHN-WORCK Conference 2021
Call for papers, deadline 25 September 2020
12/08/2020
CfP: Feminist Labour History at the ELHN-WORCK Conference 2021
Call for papers, deadline 15 September 2020
12/08/2020
CfP: Remembering Toxic Pasts? Memory, Deindustrialisation and the Environment at the ELHN-WORCK Conference 2021
Call for papers, deadline 15 September 2020
12/08/2020
CfP: The European Integration of Trade Unions: 70 years of Trade-Unionism and the legal dimensions of Social Europe (1951-2021) at the ELHN-WORCK Conference 2021
Call for papers, deadline 1 October 2020
10/08/2020
CfP: Perspectives on Workers’ Education at the ELHN-WORCK Conference 2021
Call for papers, deadline 15 September 2020
28/07/2020
CfP: Labour Migration History at the ELHN-WORCK Conference 2021
Call for papers, deadline 7 September 2020
27/07/2020
COVID-19 Special Issue Journal for the History of Environment and Society
Call for Papers, deadline 30 June 2020
04/05/2020
CfP: Forms of remunerations and public authorities, XV-XXI centuries
Call for papers, ***NEW DATE*** deadline 30 September 2020
27/04/2020
CfP: Labor and Democracy
Call for papers, deadline 30 April 2020
04/03/2020
CfP: AAHANZBS 12th Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia
Call for papers, deadline 12 June 2020
19/02/2020
New ELHN Working Group on Migration History
Call for participation
19/02/2020
Vrije Universiteit Summer School: Amsterdam in Global Capitalism: 1500-present
Summer School, 18 July - 1 August 2020
07/02/2020
CfP: Workers' Income in Maritime Industries
Call for papers, deadline 31 May 2020
29/01/2020
CfP: The Raw and the Refined: Commodities, Processing, and Power in Global Perspective
Call for papers, deadline 31 March 2020
27/01/2020
CfP: Punishment, Labor and the Legitimation of Power
Call for papers, deadline 30 March 2020
16/12/2019
Les enquêtes ouvrières dans l'Europe contemporaine
Book announcement (in French)
09/12/2019
CfP: Con-IH 20 Global and International History: Labor and Discipline from a Global Perspective
Call for papers, deadline 22 November 2019
13/11/2019
Conference Blasphemy and Violence
Conference, 5 March 2020, Ghent, Belgium
25/10/2019
2019 WORKLAB Conference: Radical Museums - Labour History Museums As Social Agents
Conference, 11-13 November 2019, Copenhagen
03/10/2019