Indian Industrial Clusters

Keshab Das is Professor at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India.

Contents: Preface; Industrial clustering in India: local dynamics and the global debate, Keshab Das; An Italian model and an Indian reality: searching for a way-out of deteriorating sweatshop conditions, Peter Knorringa; Flexible accumulation and labour markets: case of the Tiruppur Knitwear Cluster, M. Vijayabaskar; Industrial clusters and labour in rural areas: the brick kiln industry in three States, Rachel Kurian; Competition and response in small firm clusters: two cases from Gujarat, Keshab Das; Organizational forms, technological change and income generation: handloom and conch shell product clusters in West Bengal, Pradip Kumar Biswas; Variations on the classical model: forms of cooperation in leather clusters of Palar Valley, Tamil Nadu, Loraine Kennedy; Industrial clustering and cooperation: the Kanpur Saddlery cluster, Mridula Dwivedi and Rahul Varman; Flexible specialization for rural industries? a study of the bamboo and rattan subsector, P.M. Mathew; The silver filigree cluster in Cuttack, Orissa: what ails it?, Gyana Chandra Kar; Handicrafts and 'Cluster Development Approach': the hand block printed textiles cluster of Jaipur, Tamal Sarkar; Transforming artisans to entrepreneurs through group enterprise: the footwear cluster of Athani, Karnataka, Madhura M. Chatrapathy; Classifying small enterprise clusters: a conceptual enquiry in Ahmedabad, Meine Pieter van Dijk; Index.