Anant Kamath is currently faculty at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India.

This book offers an innovative examination of how 'low-technology' industries operate. Based on extensive fieldwork in India, the book fuses economic and sociological perspectives on information sharing by means of informal interaction in a low-technology cluster in a developing country. In doing so, the book sheds new light on settings where economic relations arise as emergent properties of social relations.

1. Introduction and Outline 2. A Simulation Model of Informal Information Sharing under Complex Social Relations 3. From Modelling to Empirical Study 4. Informal Information Sharing in a Universal Affinity Setting: Empirical Study of a Coir Cluster 5. A Network Study of Two Handloom Weavers' Clusters 6. Community Social Capital and Inherited Cohesive Networks 7. Conclusions and Policy Lessons Appendix - The Saliyars of Balaramapuram