The Africa Centre (London), 9-10 June 2025
This workshop seeks to examine critically the rich intellectual, political and cultural exchanges that took place in the context of African revolutions and decolonization (1950-1990). Papers from different disciplines are welcome.
Workers and the “Golden Age” of Social Democracy?
Stefan Berger, Leon Fink, Jan de Graaf, and Patrick Dixon, Guest Editors
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
Stefan Berger, Leon Fink, Jan de Graaf, and Patrick Dixon / Workers and the
“Golden Age” of Social Democracy? An Introduction 1
THE COMMON VERSE
Thomas McGrath / Slaughterhouse Music 8
ARTS AND MEDIA
Kathy M. Newman, Joseph Entin, and Patricia Hills / Philip Tipperman:
Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s 11
by Dominique Vuillaume
Ce livre analyse la mutation des savoirs consécutive au choc de l’industrialisation et à l’apparition dans son sillage de la classe ouvrière française, sur la période clé allant de la Monarchie de juillet à la fin du Second Empire.
Historical Background
International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam), 10-13 September 2025
Workshop Belgian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Wednesday 28 May 2025 - 13:30 - 17:30
Amsab-ISH - Ghent, Belgium
Website Brigadistas from Belgium: https://brigades.amsab.be
Call for Papers: New Critical Approaches on Communists and Communism in Belgium
Research Workshop
22 October 2025
CegeSoma (ARA OD4) in collaboration with Dacob/CArCoB
CfP for the conference:
The body and health in feminist labour history
Warsaw, The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 14-16 October 2026
Deadline for submissions 15 November 2025
The spaces of work and labour: Gendered perspectives on the local and the global
6th European Labour History Conference, University of Barcelona, 16-19 June 2026
Deadline for submissions 1 July 2025
The Feminist Labour History Working Group of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) invites submissions for its sessions on the theme of “The spaces of feminist labour history: gendered perspectives on the local and the global” to be held at the 6th European Labour History Conference in Barcelona, 16-19 June 2026.
Labour & Empire Working Group
Precarity and Scale in the History of Colonial Labour
ELHN Conference, University of Barcelona
June 16-19, 2026
Following up on a long-term project on working-class anti-imperialism, explored in publications (Beliard, Kirk 2021) and at conferences (most recently in Bristol 2023 and Uppsala), the ELHN Labour & Empire Working Group moves towards a renewed focus on colonial labour systems for the 2026 ELHN conference in Barcelona.
