The Maritime Labour History Working Group of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) invites submissions for its sessions at the 6th ELHN Conference, to be held in Barcelona from 16 to 19 June 2026.
The working group brings together scholars interested in the study of maritime labour across time and space. Since its inception, it has provided a transnational platform for sharing research on the transformation of maritime and port labour markets, and the conditions, struggles and agency of labouring communities connected to maritime economies.
We invite scholars to explore the complex entanglements between labour, sites of production, industrial geography and environments across historical contexts. We seek papers that examine how workplaces—whether factories, offices, shipyards, mines, farms, or digital infrastructures—function not only as sites of economic production, but also as dynamic ecosystems embedded in social, spatial, and environmental relations.
Call for Papers: The conceptions and contributions to Social Europe of European Trade Union Federations, the European Trade Union Confederation, and the Workers’ Group of the European Economic and Social Committee of the EU
Sixth European Labour History Network (ELHN) meeting
Barcelona-16-19 June 2026
Working Group: European Trade Unionism.
It is our pleasure to share with you the promising range of papers that successfully made it into our roster for the Madeira conference on "Women and Health in the 19th-Century Transatlantic World" (Dec. 4-6).
We would now like to solicit responses for these papers. Please propose your responses by July 25 at the latest.
Rennes/France, 9-10 April 2026
Trish Kahle, Georgetown University Qatar (trish.kahle@georgetown.edu)
Ewan Gibbs, University of Glasgow (ewan.gibbs@glasgow.ac.uk)
by Ariane Mak
« Il n’y avait pas de grèves pendant la guerre ! » Ce livre défie l’idée, solidement ancrée dans les représentations de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, d’une suspension des conflits sociaux au nom de la nécessaire unité nationale. De 1939 à 1945, le Royaume-Uni connaît plus de 7 000 grèves, la plupart dans l’industrie charbonnière. Qu’est-ce qu’implique la grève en temps de guerre ?
Faut-il être solidaire de la nation ou plutôt de la classe ouvrière ?
Cher.e.s collègues cher.es ami.e.s,
Nous avons le plaisir de vous faire part de la naissance d’une nouvelle revue internationale, la Revue d’histoire sociale (RHS).
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L’ère des aliments industriels
Pour une histoire des industries agroalimentaires en France (19e-21e siècle)
Marc-Olivier Déplaude et Julian Mischi
Les vacheries parisiennes
Régulations d’une production laitière urbaine, 1815-1830
Thomas Le Roux
Le travail des ouvrières et sa rationalisation dans les biscuiteries industrielles en France avant 1940
Julian Mischi
