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: Labor and Democracy

Call for papers, deadline 30 April 2020

04/03/2020

CfP: AAHANZBS 12th Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia

Call for papers, deadline 12 June 2020

19/02/2020

New ELHN Working Group on Migration History

Call for participation

19/02/2020

Vrije Universiteit Summer School: Amsterdam in Global Capitalism: 1500-present

Summer School, 18 July - 1 August 2020

07/02/2020

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