The Power of Collective Purse Strings
  Acknowledgments

 collapse sectionChapter One—  The Importance of Financial Institutions in the Political Economy
 collapse sectionThe Role of Financial Institutions in the Corporate Community
 •Lending Relations
 •Institutional Stockholding
 •Interlocking Directorates
 •Financial Institutions and the State
 •The Role of Finance Capital in the State
 collapse sectionFinance Capital and the Social Construction of Crisis
 •Corporate Crisis
 •State Crisis
 •The Process of Bank Hegemony
 •Organization of the Book
 collapse sectionChapter Two—  W. T. Grant:  The Social Construction of Bankruptcy
 •Managerial Decisions and Financial Difficulties
 •W. T. Grant's Lending Relations with Banks
 •Chapter XI and Beyond:  The Struggle Continues
 •Conclusion
 collapse sectionChapter Three—  Chrysler Corporation:  Bailing Out the Banks
 •Setting the Stage:  Managerial Decision Making, the Economy, and the Banks
 •The Loan Agreement
 collapse sectionConditions of the Loan Agreement:  The Struggle
 •The Banks
 •The United Auto Workers
 •State and Local Governments, Dealers, and Suppliers
 •Aftermath
 collapse sectionAssessing the Losses
 •The Banks
 •Labor
 •Conclusion
 collapse sectionChapter Four—  Leasco Corporation Versus Chemical Bank:  The Political Crisis
 •The Struggle
 •Conclusion
 collapse sectionChapter Five—  The Default of Cleveland:  Constructing Municipal Reality
 •The Storm Clouds Build
 •The Banks, CEI, and MUNY
 •The Struggle Continues
 •Conclusion
 collapse sectionChapter Six—  Mexico's Foreign Debt Crisis:  Bank Hegemony, Crisis, and the State
 •Setting the Stage
 •Riding the Debt Spiral
 •The Struggle Intensifies
 •The Scorecard
 •Disciplining the International Banking Community
 •Bailing Out the Banks
 •Outcome
 collapse sectionClass and Intraclass Conflict
 •The State Versus Labor and the Poor
 •Banks Versus Labor and the Poor
 •Conclusion
 collapse sectionChapter Seven—  The Social Construction of Economic and Political Reality
 •Bank Hegemony
 •The Social Construction of Economic Crisis
 •Interlocking Directorates: Sources of Power or Traces of Power?
 •The Social Construction of Political Reality and the Relative Autonomy of the State
 •Conclusion

  Appendix 1—  Using Government and Legal Documents
  Appendix 2—  Sample Outline of Court Documents for W. T. Grant Company
  Appendix 3—  Sample Interview Questionnaire for W. T. Grant Company
  References
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