Of networks and markets: The rise and rise of a South Indian town, the example of Tiruppur's cotton knitwear industry

摘要: Abstract Tiruppur town is the center of a tightly clustered range activities related to cotton knitwear industry. The successful and dramatic expansion which has taken place over last 15 years meant many more jobs, limited technological improvement, improved quality in yarn fabric an increasingly diverse garments. For larger firms industry, access export markets been driving force improving their competitiveness. Wages remain low working conditions poor, however, perhaps partly because capital concentration not, on whole, accompanied by centralized, vertically integrated production. Nevertheless, clustering dense interfirm networks provide advantages for all sizes since process specialization spatially divisible.