Eric Mosley received his early education in Derbyshire and then worked at a coal mine for ten years before returning to education. He attained a first degree in mining from University College Nottingham (now The University of Nottingham) in 1930 and an MA in Economics from Cambridge University in 1933. After Cambridge, Mosley took up a post as lecturer in economics at the University of Hull. By 1940, he was working for the Ministry of Labour and National Service in Middlesbrough, Cleveland. Soon after, Mosley joined the staff of the National Dock Labour Corporation as a welfare supervisor in Bristol. By 1944, when he presented papers to the Corporation's first conference of welfare workers, Mosley had become a national welfare and research officer and lived in the London suburb of Hampton Court in Surrey.
Following his resignation from the Corporation in 1946, Mosley joined the Distribution of Industry and Regional Division of the Board of Trade in London as a research officer. He remained in this post until at least 1952. He then moved to the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation in Paris. From August 1956 until his retirement in March 1967, Eric Mosley was Divisional Industrial Relations Director for the East Midlands division of the National Coal Board.
From the guide to the Papers of Eric S. Mosley (fl 1929-1967), economist and industrial relations manager, 1929-1967, 1929-1967, (The University of Nottingham)
