This detailed 1996 study contributes to an expanding field of interest: the social history of industrial employers. Using previously untapped primary sources, Organised Capital explores the emergence of employers' organisations in northern England and analyses their policies during the heyday of collective activity. Arthur McIvor evaluates the impact of trade unionism, state intervention, war, economic recession and changing product markets on these organisations, charting their role and patterns of growth. He challenges notions of a monolithic employer group and crude economic determinism, while also rejecting 'revisionist' accounts of weak and ineffective employers. Instead, he reaches a more balanced appraisal of these institutions' role in capital-labour relations and the pursuit of employers' class interests. This book will be of interest both to historians and to students of industrial relations.

There have been dramatic shifts in the behaviour of labour markets and the conduct of industrial relations in the last century. This volume explores these changes in the context of four very different societies: Germany, Sweden, Britain and Japan. However, despite their manifest differences, the author demonstrates that for long periods their labour markets were similar in many crucial respects. The book discusses: * the failure of neo-corporatism in Britain in the 1970's and the subsequent rise of Thatcherism; * the rise of Japan as a model for orderly industrial relations in the 1970's * the collapse of the German and the success of the Swedish labour markets in the 1930's.

1. Definition and Functions of Money, 2. Nature and Importance of Money, 3. Classification of Money, 4. Supply of Money and High Powered Money, 5. Gresham’s Law, 6. Value of Money and Index Number, 7. Quantity Theory of Money, 8. Inflation and Deflation, 9. Gold Standard : Forms, 10. International Gold Standard, 11. Financial Market : Money and Capital Market, 12. Role (Importance) of Money : In Capitalist, Socialist and Mixed Economics, 13. Foreign Exchange : Meaning, Problems and Determination, 14. International Monetary Fund, 15. Balance of Payment, 16. Free Trade and Protection.

Section : A (Applied Money) 1.Definition and Functions of Money, 2. Nature and Importance of Money, 3. Classification of Money, 4. Supply of Money and High Powered Money , 5.Gresham’s Law, 6. Value of Money and Index Number, 7. Quantity Theory of Money, 8. Inflation and Deflation, 9. Gold Standard : Forms, 10. International Gold Standard , 11. Financial Market : Money and Capital Market , Section : B (Applied Banking) 1.History of the Development of Indian Banking System, 2. Bank : Definition and Functions , 3. Classification and Importance of Banks, 4. Organisation of Commercial Banks, 5.State Bank of India, 6. Investment Policy of Commercial Banks, 7. Defects and Economic Reforms of Indian Banking System, 8. Electronic Banking , 9. Credit, Credit Instruments and Credit Creation , 10. Indian Banking Legislation : Banking Regulation Act, 1949 , 11. Regional Rural Banks, 12. Co-operative Banks , 13 .National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development— NABARD, 14. Central Banking or Apex Banking, 15. Reserve Bank of India , 16. Credit Control Policy of the Reserve Bank of India, 17. Monetary Policy , 18. Institutional Financial Institutions, 19. Balance Sheet of a Bank , 20. International Monetary Fund, 21. World Bank and other International Financial Institutions.