Richard Croucher, who died aged seventy-three on 16 December 2022, was a versatile scholar and talented labour historian who became well known as a teacher and researcher of employment relations, international trade unionism, 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 organizer for the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) between 1977 and 1997; held a senior research fellowship at the Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, from 1998 to 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.