SMEs in Indian Textiles examines how globalisation in its transformative influence affects both firms and workers in the developing economies. Firms are able, through planned actions or gradual improvements, to take up specialised or value enhancing activities. Workers' experience and learning of practices and processes for internationally certified products enable the skills and rigor of innovation and learning-by-doing to be transferred down the value chain. This has an indirect and diffusing effect not only on the fortunes of specific companies, but also affects the industries and...