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: Workshop Ethnic Identities and Industrial Memory

Call for papers, extended deadline: 31 May 2023

05/04/2023

CfP: A Historical Casebook of Wage Formation: Wage determination and wage bargains of the pre industrial world

Call for papers, deadline 17 April 2023

14/03/2023

New ELHN Working Group on Precarious Labour

Announcement

08/03/2023

CfP: Households as Coercive Labour Regimes

Call for papers, deadline 25 March 2023

17/03/2023

CfP: Race relations and racism in the worlds of labor

Call for papers, deadline 1 July 2023

Newsletter UIA´s World of Associations

Relaunch of newsletter

CfA: Classicism and War in the 20th Century - EXTENDED DEADLINE

Call for Articles, extended deadline 12 June 2023

Special issue "Social and environmental effects of mining in Southern Europe"

Publication (Open Access)

Marx and Le Capital: Evaluation, History, Reception

Announcement of publication

CfP: Journal for the History of Environment and Society: Special issue ‘Science and Environmental Activism’

Call for papers, deadline 1 February 2023

CfP: Book series “Critique and Alternatives to Capitalism”

Call for proposals

Women, Work, and Activism. Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century

Announcement of publication

Deindustrialisation in Twentieth-Century Europe: The Northwest of Italy and the Ruhr Region in Comparison

Announcement of publication

A Cultural History of Work

Announcement of publication

CfP: 58th ITH Conference. Deindustrialization, Reindustrialization and Economic Transitions – Transnational Perspectives from Labour History

Call for papers, deadline 31 January 2023

CfP: The circulation of ideas and practices regarding workplace democracy in Europe and beyond, from WWII to the present

Call for papers, deadline 31 January 2023

CfP: WORCK Conference 3: Historicising Coercive Social Processes

Call for papers, *NEW* deadline 15 February 2023

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

Call for articles, deadline 30 November 2022

24/10/2022

Women’s transnational activism in the Twentieth Century: framing the Chinese case in a global perspective

Conference, Venice and online, 21 October 2022

13/10/2022

Workplaces: Pasts and Presents Takes the Digital Turn

Special issue, September 2022

07/10/2022