Halsey was an adviser for Anthony Crosland;[3] and on education played an '"activist" role in policy development in the UK and internationally, through his work on educational reform...and as research adviser to Crosland at the DES with the introduction of comprehensive schooling in the UK'.
H. Halsey's assertion that in capitalist industrial societies "It is inevitable that the educational system should come into close relationship with the economy.
[7] Despite a hankering for social consensus in Britain, "as Halsey confesses, such a consensus became more difficult to sustain as the twentieth century proceeded; unfortunately the 'bases of social integration in Christian belief, national and imperial success, localised kinship and collective self-help institutions...were all to decay.
Across a series of six radio lectures, titled "Change in British Society" he explored a sociological perspective on contemporary Britain.
The lectures examined topics such as class, status, the rise of organisations, the nuclear family and fraternity.