Bread and Roses Award

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Bread and Roses Award
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DateAnnual
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented by
First awarded2012
Websitewww.bread-and-roses.co.uk

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 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 Blue ribbon David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years[2]
  • 2013 Blue ribbon 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,
    • 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 Blue ribbon , 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
    • , Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973
    • and , Who Needs the Cuts?: Myths of the Economic Crisis
    • , No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers
    • Andrew Simms, Cancel the Apocalypse: The New Path to Prosperity
    • , Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain
  • 2015 Blue ribbon and , Here We Stand: Women Changing The World[7]
    • Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User’s Guide[8]
    • , and , Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline[8]
    • , 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]
    • , In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre[8]
  • 2016 Blue ribbon Jeremy Seabrook, The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh[9]
    • and Dave Smith, Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists [10]
    • Kate Evans, 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
    • Katrine Marçal, Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics
  • 2017 Blue ribbon Alex Nunns, The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power[11]
  • 2018 Blue ribbon Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (with Bill Schwarz) (joint winner)[13]
         Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon Liz Fekete, Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right[14]
  • 2020 Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon 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

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Bread and Roses Award, official website.
  2. ^ a b c d e (6 March 2012). "New prize for radical writing announces shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  3. ^ Alliance of Radical Booksellers, official website.
  4. ^ Counterpower: Making Change Happen, New Internationalist
  5. ^ Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants, Verso Books
  6. ^ Lisa Campbell (3 May 2014). "Shortlist for Bread and Roses Award revealed". The Bookseller. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  7. ^ Bread and Roses (2015-05-10). "'Here We Stand: Women Changing The World' wins the Bread & Roses Award 2015". breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com. Bread and Roses Award. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Bread and Roses (2015-03-11). "The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2015 Shortlist". breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com. The Bread and Roses Award. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  9. ^ "'The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh' by Jeremy Seabrook wins the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016". The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Bread and Roses Award. May 8, 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  10. ^ "The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016 Shortlist". The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Bread and Roses Award. March 21, 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  11. ^ "'The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power' by Alex Nunns wins the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017". The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Bread and Roses Award. 26 June 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  12. ^ "The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017 Shortlist". The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Bread and Roses Award. 4 May 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  13. ^ "Joint winners of the Bread & Roses Award 2018 announced". The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Bread and Roses Award. 3 June 2017. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  14. ^ "Winners of the Bread & Roses Award 2019 announced". The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Bread and Roses Award. 12 June 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  15. ^ "'Afropean: Notes from Black Europe' by Johny Pitts Winner of the Bread & Roses Award 2020". The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Bread and Roses Award. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  16. ^ "Clifford wins Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing". The Bookseller. The Bookseller. 29 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  17. ^ "Clifford, Dadzie and Hatherley shortlisted for Bread and Roses Award". The Bookseller. The Bookseller. 18 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.

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