South End Press
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| Status | Defunct (July 2014) |
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| Founded | 1977 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Brooklyn, New York |
| Publication types | Books |
| Owner(s) | Worker-owned and -operated collective |
| Official website | www.southendpress.org (dead link) |
South End Press was a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics. It was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert,Lydia Sargent, Juliet Schor, among others, in Boston's South End. It published books written by political activists, notably Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Ward Churchill, Cherríe Moraga, Andrea Smith, Howard Zinn, Jeremy Brecher and Scott Tucker.
South End Press was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert,Lydia Sargent, John Schall, Pat Walker, Juliet Schor, Mary Lea, Joe Bowring, and Dave Millikan, among others. It was based in Boston's South End and run as a egalitarian collective with decision-making equally shared.
The publisher got into financial difficulties in the financial crisis of 2007–08, with sales dropping by 12.8% in 2008. In 2009, South End Press moved to a new office in Brooklyn, New York, partnering with Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. A fundraising campaign was run in 2012 to help ease its financial situation.
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