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

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