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.

We are pleased to announce that Labour History Review is celebrating the publication of its 90th edition. Labour History Review is published in partnership with the Society for the Study of Labour History, alongside the book series Studies in Labour History, edited by Professor Neville Kirk.