In the mid-1970s, Bullock used his committee skills to produce a report which proved to be influential in the classroom: "A Language for Life", about reading and the teaching of English, was published in 1975. Bullock also chaired the committee of inquiry on industrial democracy commissioned in December 1975 by the second Labour Government of Harold Wilson. The committee's report, which was also known as the Bullock Report, published in 1977, recommended worker's control in large companies with employees having a right to hold representative worker directorships.