Labor union power ebbs and flows due to relationships with the state. Be it local, regional, or national. The 2024 Online Economic History Workshop is seeking papers of the interplay between government & politicians with labor unions that either strengthen or weaken labor unions.

The World Economic History Congress will dedicate three sessions on Monday 28 July 2025 for the PhD dissertation competition. The sessions and prizes are divided according to the dissertations’ main time focus – before the 19th century, the long 19th century, or the 20th and 20th centuries.

Geoeconomics is an emerging field, but the issues with which it is concerned are not new. Historically, geopolitical factors have always been shaping economic outcomes and vice versa. In this conference we build on this insight and bring together research on recent geoeconomic phenomena as well as historical perspectives.

Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) and/or your full paper to galofrevila[at]gmail.com
Deadline to send us a paper proposal: 31 December 2024. Communicate the accepted proposals: 15 January 2025. Final program: 31 January 2025.

The Poster Exhibition enables scholars in Economic history to present their latest research projects. We kindly invite you to exhibit your ongoing work through the submission of a Poster. The Poster Exhibition will be active Monday – Wednesday (28–30 July) 13.00–14:00 in connection with the lunches, right in the heart of the congress mingle.

The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) announce their tenth jointly organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 11-17 May 2025, in Prato (Italy). The topic of the 2025 seminar is ‘Finance in History’ and closely related to the theme of the preceding congress yearly organised by the “F. Datini” International Institute of Economic History, in 2025 devoted to ‘Risk Management, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy in the Pre-Modern World (13th-18th Centuries)’.

The Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Society for Social and Economic History) and the Wirtschaftshistorischer Ausschuss as part of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Economic History Committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik) are jointly organizing their 6th Congress on Economic and Social History. We cordially invite submissions to this conference.

We welcome papers on a wide range of topics related to women’s labour which takes particularly the company and company-level archives as its primary level of analysis. We also welcome papers that explicitly consider the distinct nature of female wage workers and female entrepreneurs, i.e. research on women working for a company or women who own their own company. We welcome scholars working on the following questions:
 1) How has the nature and extend of the gender wage gap changed over time (for instance looking at the difference between piece and time rates);
 2) How do masculinization or feminization of specific occupations, i.e. the extend of occupational segregation, change over time and why?
 3) How and when did women choose entrepreneurship compared to wage work? Can this explain the long-term development of female entrepreneurship?

Our conference welcomes a broad range of topics that are historical in perspective, including but not limited to those concerned with: global trade and monetary order; the economics of empire and decolonisation; international economic organisations and international economic relations; the governing of global food and commodities; global labour practices and markets; global banking and finance; multinational business enterprises; and international tax and regulation. Following the conference, we may solicit articles for the publication of a special issue.

The Exploring Gender, Human Capital, and Labour Intersections in Economic History winter school is an interdisciplinary meeting of economists and historians focused on discussing the interplay between gender, human capital, and labour. To understand how these developed over the past centuries, it is necessary to understand how they are linked and interact with each other, as observing them in isolation provides only a partial picture. The winter school will provide a platform for scholars to share research, approaches, and methodologies for studying labour, gender inequalities, and the evolution of human capital. It comprises two days of academic presentations and a one-day methodological workshop. The methodological workshop consists of two parallel sessions: the first will explore the ways in which marginalized groups can be included in linked census datasets, while the second will provide insight into the processes of saving primary source material and establishing a digital archive.

This session explores profit, dividends, and returns over the 19th and 20th centuries. Organizers welcome papers addressing the issue at the country level or from a comparative perspective. Within this framework, potential research avenues are delineated by the examination of economic sectors, large versus small enterprises, domestic versus foreign entities, metropolitan versus colonial establishments, and innovative versus mature businesses. Perspectives that explore technological spillovers, financial cross-country effects, trade, and foreign-direct investments are also encouraged.