Publishing & Printing

Working Together to Achieve Economic Success: Argentine printing cooperatives transform social networks into economic ones

jim — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:07:20 -0500

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/585

By Traci Kuratomi, current Fulbright Fellow in Argentina

In 2001, Argentina was devastated by an economic crisis that led to widespread deindustrialization and unemployment levels of 21 percent. As factories closed, thousands of people suddenly found themselves jobless and without the possibility of finding work. Worse, the factory owners who declared bankruptcy often owed their workers months of wages and failed to provide workers severance pay.

Regional Alliance of Worker Co-ops to Publish a Movement Book

jim — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:46:22 -0500

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/410

by Michael Johnson, GEO Collective

Tuesday November 3 marked a milestone for the book project of the Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives (VAWC). Food for Thought Books, a 33-year collective and member of VAWC, hosted an advance book sale for CO-OP VALLEY! THE WORKER COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY. They organized the event to help finance the writing and publishing of the book.

Our purpose in publishing this book is three-fold:

Spinning into Control: Inkworks Press spins off Design Action Collective

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:00:06 -0400

by Innosanto Nagara

Design Action Collective is a fun, creative, place to work. We provide graphic design and visual communications services to activist, social change and other progressive organizations. We believe that social-change messages need to communicate effectively with their target audiences.

South End Press: Independent & Collectively-Run

Ethan — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:12:27 -0400

A radical cooperative press in Boston, since 1977.