| Bread and Roses Award | |
| Presenter: | Alliance of Radical Booksellers |
| Date: | Annual |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Year: | 2012 |
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. The award believes itself to be the UK's only left-wing only book prize. 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] The Bread and Roses Award is sponsored by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers and has no corporate sponsorship.[2]
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.
| Year | Author | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | [3] | |||
| 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 | |||
| Magical Marxism | ||||
| Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent | ||||
| Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World | ||||
| 2013 | 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 | |||
| No-Nonsense Guide to Equality | ||||
| A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire | ||||
| Eveline Lubbers | ||||
| 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 | Soldier Box: Why I Won't Return to the War on Terror | [6] | ||
| Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police | ||||
| Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973 | ||||
| Who Needs the Cuts?: Myths of the Economic Crisis | ||||
| No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers | ||||
| Cancel the Apocalypse: The New Path to Prosperity | ||||
| Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain | ||||
| 2015 | Here We Stand: Women Changing The World | [7] | ||
| [8] | ||||
| Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion | ||||
| The Spirit of '45 | ||||
| The Meaning of David Cameron | ||||
| The Left Behind | ||||
| 2016 | 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] | ||
| Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg | ||||
| Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts | ||||
| Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots | ||||
| Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics | ||||
| 2017 | The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power | [11] | ||
| 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 Women's Workshop – Feminist Posters 1974-1990 | ||||
| Jack Shenker | The Egyptians: A Radical Story | |||
| Another Day in the Death of America | ||||
| 2018 | Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands | [13] | ||
| Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race | ||||
| 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 | Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right | [14] | ||
| 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 | |||
| Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe | ||||
| Alt Right: From 4chan to the White House | ||||
| 2020 | 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 | |||
| The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism | ||||
| Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent | ||||
| Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide. A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020 | ||||
| 2021 | The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe | [16] | ||
| 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 | |||
| Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London | ||||
| The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution | ||||
| African Europeans: An Untold History | ||||
| 2022 | The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear | [18] | ||
| Koshka Duff et al | Abolishing the Police | |||
| 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 | |||
| 2023 | ||||
| Aviah Day and Shanice McBean | Abolition Revolution | [19] | ||
| Jeffrey Boakye | I Heard What You Said | |||
| Ione Gamble | Poor Little Sick Girls | |||
| Elias Jahshan (editor) | This Arab Is Queer | |||
| Kojo Koram | Uncommon Wealth | |||
| 2024 | ||||
| Annabel Sowemimo | Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare | [20] | ||
| Kaamil Ahmed | I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas & Rivers | |||
| Hil Aked | Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity | |||
| Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism | ||||
| Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State | ||||
| Malu Halasa | Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran |