Robert Oakeshott

The founder and long-time executive director of the UK's Employee Ownership Association (EOA), Robert Oakeshott, died on June 18. Mr. Oakeshott began his career as a journalist, including six years at the Financial Times, and in 1979 he founded Job Ownership Limited, which later became the EOA. A tireless advocate, brilliant writer, and dogged researcher, Mr. Oakeshott's legacy will live on through the organization he founded, the books he wrote, and the lives he touched. David Ellerman of the University of California in Riverside writes, "From his discovery of Mondragon for the English-speaking world in The Case for Workers' Co-ops to his magisterial Jobs and Fairness, Robert Oakeshott has been the foremost analyst and interpreter of worker ownership in the world today."