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: 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
European Labour History Network solidarity with Climate Change Strike
Event, 20 September 2019, Amsterdam
20/09/2019
CfP: 4th International Conference in Economic and Social History: Varieties of Capitalism in the Mediterranean (18th-20th c.)
Call for papers, deadline 15 November 2019
17/07/2019
JHES special issue: Siting Nuclear Installations at the Border
Journal announcement
17/07/2019
CfP: Long-term global perspectives on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace
Call for papers, deadline 15 September 2019
11/06/2019
Biographical Archive of the Workers Movement
New publication
21/05/2019
Coordinator of Bonn Center of Digital Humanities
Job opportunity, deadline 15 May 2019
13/05/2019
CfP: Gender, Intersectionality and Dependency Workshop at the University of Bonn, 18-19 July 2019
Call for Papers, deadline 10 June 2019
13/05/2019
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