The ITH (Internationale Tagung der Historiker der Arbeiterbewegung) was formally founded in Vienna, Austria, in 1969, and became well known for its 'Linz Conferences', annual international meetings of labour historians dedicated to one or more special themes in each year. The conferences had been organized since 1964 (the first one in Vienna), under the auspices of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (in Österreich) [Working Group on the history of the workers' movement (in Austria)]. The ITH has also served as an institutional platform bringing together labour historians and connecting institutions dedicated to research on labour history. The seat of the organisation is Vienna, Austria. Until the 1990s the Linz Conferences strongly focused on the history of the labour movement in all parts of Europe; a visible focus was laid on international as well as comparative dimensions, and an effort was made to bring in participants and scholarship from the non-European and non-Western world, including India, China, and the United States of America. Before the end of state-socialism, the ITH and its conferences served as a platform especially for bringing together and promoting dialogue between scholars from both sides of the 'Iron Curtain'; since then the organisation has broadened its thematic interest and geographical scope; today its conferences focus on labour history broadly conceived and the history of social movements; a global and inclusive approach to this history and transnational research topics is pursed, while participants still dominantly come from the Global North and the focus on Central, South Eastern and Eastern Europe has disappeared. Since 2014 the ITH has served as an organisational platform for the European Labour History Network, and most recently it has been involved in the emerging Global Labour History Network. Detailed information on the ITH and its publications can be found at the website of the ITH.

Received from the ITH in 2016

Arranged in two series: Conference Papers and Other Publications.

Collection of the proceedings of, and edited volumes arising from, the annual conferences of the ITH, and miscellaneous printed material. As a rule, the conference volumes focus on one or more themes in the history and historiography of labour and the labour movement; there is also bibliographical information as well as information on and discussion of research institutions, sources, documentation, and methods. The first volume, documenting the inaugural conference (Vienna, 1964) and the first two Linz Conferences (1965 and 1966) was published in 1972.Thereafter, until the 23rdconference (1987), the entire conference proceedings, including the opening statements, the papers given, and the ensuing discussion, were published. The proceedings of the 3d, 4th, 6thand 7th 'Linz' conferences (1967, 1968, 1970 and 1971) have not been published. The conferences between 1988 and 1992 are each documented through the edited volumes and an accompanying brochure on the conference proceedings. From the 29th Linz Conference (1993) edited volumes building on selected contributions to the Conferences are published.

The ITH Collection also includes three brochures on history, membership and publications of the ITH (1989, 1994, and no year given), and one booklet (1993) documenting the state of research on class and gender in Central and Eastern Europe.

The digitalization of the material was carried out by the ITH, with financial support by the Institut zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Gewerkschaften und Arbeiterkammern der Arbeiterkammer Wien (Chamber of Labour), Vienna, and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin. The ITH has also created the inventory and contributed to the description of the collection.

Originals kept by Internationale Tagung der HistorikerInnen der Arbeit- und anderer sozialer Bewegungen (ITH)