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: Working Group Workplaces, Pasts and Presents, ELHN Conference 2026: Grounded Work: Social, Spatial and Environmental Ecologies of Labour
Call for papers, deadline 15 August 2025
02/07/2025
CfP: Working Group European Trade Unionism, ELHN Conference 2026: The conceptions and contributions to Social Europe
Call for papers, deadline 23 September 2025
02/07/2025
CfP: Working group Arctic and Indigenous Labour, ELHN Conference 2026
Call for papers, deadline 1 September 2025
12/06/2025
CfP: Military Labour History at the ELHN Conference, 2026
Call for papers, deadline 1 September 2025 (7 July for Session 5)
12/06/2025
CfP: Working Group Labour Migration History, ELHN Conference 2026: Disparities and Inequalities in Transformations of Labour Migration: Historical Shifts and Historiographical Debates
Call for proposals, deadline 15 July 2025
02/06/2025
CfP: Working Group Guild and Artisan Labour, ELHN Conference 2026
Call for papers, deadline 1 September 2025
02/06/2025
CfP: Working Group Labour and Family Economy, ELHN conference 2026
Call for papers, ***EXTENDED DEADLINE*** 15 July 2025
23/05/2025
CfP: Nordic Labour Internationalism in the 20th Century
Call for papers, deadline 31 August 2025
23/05/2025
CfP: Working Group Precarious Labour, ELHN Conference 2026
Call for proposals, deadline 9 September 2025
23/05/2025
CfP: Working Group Workers' Education, ELHN Conference 2026: Perspectives on Workers’ Education
Call for papers, deadline 1 August 2025
16/05/2025
CfP: Working Group Industrial and Economic Democracy, ELHN Conference 2026: Economic Democracy and Beyond: Re-thinking the role of democratic participation in industry and the economy, past and present
Call for Papers, deadline 15 July 2025
14/05/2025
CfP The body and health in feminist labour history
Call for papers, deadline 15 November 2025
05/05/2025
CFP Working Group Feminist Labour History, ELHN Conference 2026: The spaces of work and labour: Gendered perspectives on the local and the global
Call for papers, deadline 1 July 2025
05/05/2025
CFP Working Group Labour and Empire, ELHN Conference 2026: Precarity and Scale in the History of Colonial Labour
Call for papers, deadline 30 June 2025
05/05/2025
CfP Working Group Labour and Coercion, ELHN Conference 2026
Call for papers, ***EXTENDED DEADLINE*** 15 July 2025
08/04/2025
Work and the Balkans, special issue of the Études Balkaniques (en français)
Call for articles, deadline 18 April 2025
05/04/2025
Workers of the World journal theme issue: Palestine, and global resistance to genocide
Call for articles, deadline 15 May 2025
05/04/2025
Workers of the World journal theme issue: Education, what, for whom, how
Call for articles, deadline 15 July 2025
05/04/2025
Port identities - Identités portuaires
Publication (in French)
05/02/2025
Control and punishment devices: 3rd International Conference on History of Prison and Punitive Institutions
Call for papers, deadline 14 March 2025
23/12/2024