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

Book Tour 'Dockworker Power: Race and Activism'
Event, European tour, May 2019
24/04/2019
ELHN WG Feminist Labour History Newsletter, April 2019
Announcement, ELHN Working Group Feminist Labour History
15/04/2019
Industrial Labour & Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
Conference, 7 June 2019, Tampere, Finland
04/04/2019
Labour in History & Economics Conference
Conference, 15-16 April 2019, Oxford, United Kingdom
01/04/2019
CfP: Labouring Lives and Political Protest Across and Beyond the Nordic Countries
Call for papers, deadline October-November 2019
25/03/2019
CfP: Social inequality: what has work got to do with it?
Call for papers, deadline 1 May 2019
20/03/2019
CfP: Labor in the Creative Industries: The Case of Fashion
Call for papers, deadline 7 April 2019
08/03/2019
European Labour History Network - 3rd Conference
Conference, 18-21 September 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
01/03/2019
CfP: On the Freedom of Labour in Capitalism. First Congress of the German Labour History Association
Call for papers, deadline 30 April 2019
11/02/2019
ISHA Newsletter vol. 7, nr. 1
Newsletter
30/01/2019
What Is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present
Book announcement
22/12/2018
Conference New perspectives in feminist labour history: work and activism
Event, Bologna, 17-18 January 2019
23/11/2018
CfP: European economies beyond indicators: Structures, systems, and institutions in Western Europe since 1945
Call for papers, deadline 31 January 2019
22/11/2018
CfP: Labour in History and Economics: Migration, Markets, and the Work Environment
Call for Papers, deadline 14 December 2018
13/11/2018
CfP: Workshop Industrial Heritage Activism: Memory Politics in Public Labour History (session at the III ELHN Conference)
Call for Papers, deadline 30 October 2018
16/10/2018
CfP: Gender and Household Budgets in Contemporary European History (session at the III ELHN Conference)
Call for papers, deadline 15 October 2018
02/10/2018
CfP: Children at Work (session at the III ELHN Conference)
Call for papers, deadline 25 September 2018
19/09/2018
CfP: Remuneration, workers and employers organisations (session at the III ELHN Conference)
Call for Papers, deadline 10 October 2018
10/09/2018
New Book on Dockworkers in Durban and San Francisco
Publication
23/08/2018
CfP: Reproductive Labour and Unfree Labour (session at the III ELHN Conference)
Call for Papers, deadline 15 September 2018
06/08/2018