European Labour History Network (ELHN)

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

5th ELHN Conference 2024 Uppsala


The conference has been a great success, with almost 250 registered participants and some 70 sessions. Many thanks to the organizers in Uppsala, Silke, Jonas, Jenny and the rest of their team!

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News ELHN

New publication: Les dockers du Havre, de la révolution à nos jours (French)
Book publication
06/11/2024
Vacancies at IISH: Postdoc Slavery and Junior Resarcher HTR
Vacanies, deadline 13 October 2024
07/10/2024
Mouvements protestataires, contestations politiques et luttes sociales en Grande-Bretagne (1811- 1914) - Protest movements, political dissent and social struggles in Britain, 1811-1914
Conference, 31 January 2025 (in French)
07/10/2024
Contemporary Hungarian Society: Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism, by Tibor Valuch
Book publication
02/10/2024
CfP International Congress “Families and Historical Change. Relational Dynamics and Social Transformations. A global perspective, 13th-20th centuries”
Call for papers, deadlines 15 October 2024 and 15 Januray 2025
24/09/2024
CfP: 17th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries
Call for papers, deadline 15 December 2024
20/09/2024
Special Issue 'Technological Change, Mechanisation, and the Reactions of Craftsmen and Workers in Mediterranean Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries'
Publication
10/09/2024
New Issue Open Access Journal 'Workers of the World'
Publication
06/09/2024
CfP: Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies: Perspectives from Asia, Past & Present
Call for papers, deadline 31 October 2024
06/09/2024
CfA Gendered labour history in Europe and beyond
Call for Articles, expressions of interest deadline 25 July 2024
03/07/2024
YMHC #13 : Things that Grow in the Earth: Recovering Resources in the Early Modern World - by Sebastian Felten (University of Vienna)
Blog post announcement
15/12/2023
5th European Labour History Network Conference - Labour in Mining Working Group
Event, 11-23 June 2024, Uppsala/Sweden
04/12/2023
Chiffrer et classer en situation coloniale et post-coloniale: Afrique francophone, XIX-XXIe siècles
Journées académiques: Saint-Louis, Senegal, 1-2 décembre 2023 (français)
14/11/2023
WORCK New publications including Open Access
Publications
03/11/2023
CfP: 59th ITH Conference - Worlds of Digital Labour
Call for Papers, deadline 26 January 2024
10/10/2023
CfP: Strike Activity in the 21st Century: Implications of the Recent Global Upsurge
Call for Papers, deadline 20 November 2023 EXTENDED
09/10/2023
CfP: Transfers of socialism between France and Great Britain
Call for Papers, deadline 1 October 2023
18/09/2023
CfP: Participation at Work: The History of Economic and Industrial Democracy
Call for papers, deadline 26 September 2023
17/08/2023
CfP: Elsewhere. The Migration of Families in the Past from a Labour History and Family Economy Perspective (18th-19th Century)
Call for Papers, deadline 10 September 2023
01/08/2023
CfP: Labour, gender and social mobility during the industrialization
Call for Papers, deadline 10 September 2023
01/08/2023