My friend Theo Nichols, who has died aged 86, was a social sciences professor dedicated to the critical study of the relationship between capital and labour. Theo’s first book, Ownership, Control and Ideology (1969), was followed by Workers Divided (1976) and Living With Capitalism (1977), two case studies of work at a large chemical complex, while The British Worker Question (1986) employed his powerful prose to critique dominant accounts of low productivity and the performance of the British economy. He went on to publish another 15 books and edited collections including the classic study The Sociology of Industrial Injury (1997). Continue reading...