Richard Croucher, who died aged 73 on 16 December 2022, was a versatile scholar and talented labour historian who became well-known as a teacher and researcher in the field of employment relations and management studies. He played a prominent part in the field of labour history from the mid-1970s into the 1990s. His books Engineers at War and We Refuse to Starve in Silence constituted a significant contribution to the historiography of labour in the first half of the twentieth century. He worked in adult education teaching trade union activists as a Tutor Organiser for the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) between 1977 and 1997, held a Senior Research Fellowship at the Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, 1998–2005, and was Professor of Comparative Employment Relations at the Middlesex University Business School, London, from 2005 until his untimely death.

A full obituary by John McIlroy and Alan Campbell appears in Labour History Review (2023), 88, (2), 27-41. Read more.

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