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

ELHN Labour & Empire Working Group Seminar Series

Seminars, 2 November 2022 - 15 March 2023

06/10/2022

CfP: 2023 Tallinn Dissertation Prize in European Environmental History

Call for submissions, deadline EXTENDED 31 January 2023

19/09/2022

Women's maritime work in the Upper Adriatic region with a focus on the two post-WW periods (WeCanIt)

Blog publication

08/07/2022

Workplaces Exhibits

Call for exhibits

22/06/2022

Transnational capital and the Bangladesh garment industry: interview with Dina Siddiqi

Podcast, 14 May 2022

14/06/2022

Global History of Home-Based Work 1800-2021

Hybrid seminar, 13 June 2022

10/06/2022

Virtual Roundtable “Doing Labour History within the ELHN Working Groups”

Workshop, 7 April 2022

05/04/2022

Journées d’études « Petites industries », travail des femmes et diversité des chemins de l’industrialisation dans l’Europe méditerranéenne

Workshop, 31 March - 1 April 2022

30/03/2022

CfP: Compulsory Labour in Premodern Rural Europe

Call for papers, deadline 8 april 2022

22/03/2022

GLHN Third Conference Senegal: POSTPONED

New Call for Papers: 31 July 2022

04/03/2022

CfP: ESSHC 2023: Labour History Network

Call for sessions and papers, deadline 15 April 2022

22/02/2022

CfP (In)equalities, (In)justices: The value of women

Call for articles, deadline 1 March 2022

21/02/2022

CfP: The Young Mining Historians’ Corner (ELHN Labour In Mining WG)

Call for papers

11/02/2022

CfP: 18th annual HEIRS conference. A means to what end: the interrelation between visions of Europe and economic policies

Call for papers, deadline 3 April 2022

11/02/2022

ELHN Working Group Remuneration and Bargaining

Call for membership, deadline 15 March 2022

08/02/2022

Anti-communist Solidarity: US-Brazilian Labor Relations During the Dictatorship in Cold War Brazil

Book publication

25/01/2022

Everyday Life under Communism and After: Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000

Open Access Book

18/01/2022

Rewriting Labour Histories: Perspectives from the Globe - WORCK Training School 2022

Call for participation, deadline 15 February 2022

30/12/2021

Virtual Exhibits on WORKPLACES: PASTS AND PRESENTS

Website announcement

02/12/2021

CfP: Two-day online workshop: WWII in the Asia-Pacific: Border Crossing Mobilities

Call for papers, deadline 17 January 2022

29/11/2021