The publication of the first issue of Capital & Class belongs to much the same period that saw the publication of Living with Capitalism, which was written by Huw Beynon and myself (Nichols and Beynon 1977) and which was the product of a research team that also included Peter Armstrong and Martyn Nightingale. I recently re-read the book, 30 years after the fieldwork began.
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