European Labour History Network (ELHN)

Upcoming ELHN conference in Barcelona, Spain, in June 2026. See link below.

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

Download the Conference Programme

ELHN Conference Barcelona 2026 - Conference website

News ELHN

CfP: Women of the Waterfront. Gendering ports, careers, relations and (everyday) life trajectories in Modern times

Call for papers, deadline 15 September 2023

23/07/2023

CfC: Nested internationalisms: New Perspectives on Labour Activism Across Borders and Boundaries

Call for contributions, deadline 15 August 2023

13/07/2023

CfP: Unstable stability? Working class-life and the world of work in East-Central Europe after 1989-1990

Call for Papers, deadline 30 September 2023

13/07/2023

CfP: Mining and Agriculture relationships: Influences on labour organisation and labour markets

Call for Papers, deadline 15 September 2023

12/07/2023

CfP: Working-Class Anti-Imperialism, the Global Left and Beyond

Call for Papers, REVISED DEADLINE 15 September 2023

12/07/2023

CfP ELHN Working Group Maritime Labour History

Call for Papers, deadline 6 september 2023

06/07/2023

CfP: (Re)thinking Africa’s image for the development of the continent

Call for Papers, deadline 30 September 2023

04/07/2023

CfP ELHN Working Group Workplaces Pasts and Presents: Layering and connecting space: a view from the workplace

Call for Papers, deadline 15 August 2023

04/07/2023

CfP ELHN Working Group Labour and Family Economy: Labour and Old Age / Labouring Elderly

Call for Papers, EXTENDED DEADLINE 10 September 2023

04/07/2023

CfP ELHN Working group Arctic and Indigenous labour

Call for papers, deadline 1 September 2023

28/06/2023

CfP: Guest-workers of the World

Call for papers, deadline 5 September 2023

26/06/2023

CfPs: Labour & Coercion at the 5th ELHN Conference

Call for papers, deadline 20 August 2023

12/06/2023

Working-class Anti-Imperialism and the Global Left: New Directions of Study

Workshop, 30 June 2023, Bristol

02/06/2023

CfP: Visual and Material Histories of Military Labour

Call for Proposals, deadline 14 August 2023

24/05/2023

CfP: 50th anniversary of the European Trade Union Confederation (1973-2023)

Call for papers, deadline 30 May 2023

05/05/2023

CfP: Military Labour History at the ELHN Conference, 2024

Call for papers, deadline 31 July 2023

02/05/2023

CfP Precarious Labour - Fifth ELHN Conference - Open Call for Proposals

Call for proposals, deadline 1 September 2023

25/04/2023

CfP: Mining Mobilities across the Globe. Labour, Science, and Knowledge Circulation in Mining (15th-21st century)

Call for papers, *EXTENDED DEADLINE* 30 June 2023

18/04/2023

CfP: Feminist Labour History - Fifth ELHN Conference

Call for proposals, EXTENDED DEADLINE 20 July 2023

06/04/2023

CfA: The neoliberal turn and the history of everyday life in Central and Eastern Europe

Call for Articles, deadline 31 August 2023

05/04/2023