Bread and Roses Award
Date	Annual
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	Alliance of Radical Booksellers
First awarded	2012
Website	breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com

The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing is a British literary award presented for the best radical book published each year, with radical book defined as one that is "informed by socialist, anarchist, environmental, feminist and anti-racist concerns" ^[1] – in other words, ideologically left books. ^[2] The award believes itself to be the UK's only left-wing only book prize. ^[2] Books must be written, or largely written by authors or editors normally living in the UK, or international books available for purchase in the UK. ^[1] Winning authors receive £1,000. ^[1] The Bread and Roses Award is sponsored by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers and has no corporate sponsorship. ^{[2] [3]}

Bread and Roses is a phrase from the Bread and Roses strike of 1912 among textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. In a song – " Bread and Roses" – commemorating the event, the strikers supposedly struck "for bread, and for roses too."

The inaugural prize was announced 1 May 2012, on International Workers Day, at the Bread and Roses pub in Clapham, London. ^[2]

Winners and shortlists

• 2012 David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years ^[2]
  • Tim Gee, Counterpower: Making Change Happen ^[4]
  • Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns (editors), Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt’s Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made It
  • Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
  • Andy Merrifield, Magical Marxism
  • Laurie Penny, Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent
  • Nicholas Shaxson, Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World
• 2013 Hsiao-Hung Pai, Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants ^[5]
  • Federico Campagna and Emanuele Campiglio (editors), What We Are Fighting For: A Radical Collective Manifesto
  • Danny Dorling, No-Nonsense Guide to Equality
  • Donny Gluckstein, A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire
  • Eveline Lubbers, Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists
  • Paul Mason, Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
  • Daniel Poyner (editor), Autonomy: The cover designs of Anarchy 1961–1970
  • Dan Swain, Alienation: An Introduction to Marx’s Theory
• 2014 Joe Glenton, Soldier Box: Why I Won’t Return to the War on Terror ^[6]
  • Rob Evans and Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police
  • Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973
  • Barry Kushner and Saville Kushner, Who Needs the Cuts?: Myths of the Economic Crisis
  • Katharine Quarmby, No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers
  • Andrew Simms, Cancel the Apocalypse: The New Path to Prosperity
  • Imogen Tyler, Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain
• 2015 Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones, Here We Stand: Women Changing The World ^[7]
  • Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User’s Guide ^[8]
  • Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen and Nawara Mahfoud, Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline ^[8]
  • Tansy E. Hoskins, Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion ^[8]
  • Francesca Martinez, What the **** is Normal?! ^[8]
  • James Meek, Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else ^[8]
  • Lara Pawson, In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre ^[8]
• 2016 Jeremy Seabrook, The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh ^[9]
  • Phil Chamberlain and Dave Smith, Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists ^[10]
  • Kate Evans, Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
  • Mel Evans, Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts
  • Rhian E. Jones, Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots
  • Katrine Marçal, Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics
• 2017 Alex Nunns, The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power ^[11]
  • Dawn Foster, Lean Out ^[12]
  • Andrea Needham, The Hammer Blow: How 10 Women Disarmed a War Plane
  • Lara Pawson, This is the Place to Be
  • See Red Members & Sheila Rowbotham, See Red Women's Workshop – Feminist Posters 1974-1990
  • Jack Shenker, The Egyptians: A Radical Story
  • Gary Younge, Another Day in the Death of America
• 2018 Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (with Bill Schwarz) (joint winner) ^[13]

          Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (joint winner)

• Kapka Kassabova, Border: A Journey To The Edge Of Europe
• Heather McDaid (Editor), Laura Jones (Editor), Nasty Women
• Vickie Cooper, David Whyte (editors), The Violence of Austerity
• Dave Randall, Sound System: The Political Power of Music

• 2019 Liz Fekete, Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right ^[14]
  • Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
  • June Eric-Udorie (Editor), Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism
  • Juno Mac and Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights
  • Daniel Trilling, Lights In The Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe
  • Mike Wendling, Alt Right: From 4chan to the White House
• 2020 Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe ^[15]
  • Frances Ryan, Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
  • Becky Alexis-Martin, Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima
  • Ruth Kinna, The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism
  • Priyamvada Gopal, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
  • Kate Charlesworth, Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide. A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020
• 2021 Ellen Clifford, The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe ^[16]
  • Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance ^[17]
  • Marcus Gilroy-Ware After the Fact? The Truth About Fake News
  • Emma Griffin, Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy
  • Owen Hatherley, Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London
  • Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
  • Olivette Otele, African Europeans: An Untold History
• 2022 Florian Grosset, The Chagos Betrayal : How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear ^[18]
  • Koshka Duff et al, Abolishing the Police
  • Hsiao-Hung Pai, Ciao Ousmane: The Hidden Exploitation of Italy’s Migrant Workers
  • Gargi Bhattacharyya et al, Empire's endgame: Racism and the British State
  • Matthew Brown and Rhian E Jones, Paint your town red

References

External links

• Official website