Bread and Roses Award

The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing is a British literary award. It has been awarded annually since 2012 for "radical literature" - whereby this is understood as something that is socialist , anarchist , ecological , feminist or anti-racist - in other words, dedicated left literature. This award is the UK's only left wing literary award. The literature must be written by authors who mainly live in the UK or at least have been published in the UK. The award is endowed with 500 British pounds. The Bread and Roses Award is sponsored by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers and is not based on any foundation.

Bread and Roses is a phrase based on the 1912 Lawrence textile strike in Lawrence , Massachusetts . In the song, Bread and Roses , which commemorates the strike, the workers allegedly went on strike for "bread and also for roses".

The first award ceremony took place on Labor Day May 1, 2012 at the Bread and Roses Pub in Clapham , London .

Winner and shortlist

• 2012 David Graeber , Debt: The First 5,000 Years
  • Tim Gee , Counterpower: Making Change Happen
  • 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
  • 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 Maneuvers 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
  • 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, September 11, 1973
  • Barry Kushner and Saville Kushner , Who Needs the Cuts ?: Myths of the Economic Crisis
  • Katharine Quarmby , No Place to Call bread-and-roses-the-award: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travelers
  • 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
  • Chang Ha-joon , Economics: The User's Guide
  • Malu Halasa , Zaher Omareen and Nawara Mahfoud , Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline
  • Tansy E. Hoskins , Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
  • Francesca Martinez , What the **** is Normal ?!
  • James Meek , Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
  • Lara Pawson , In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre

• 2017: Alex Nunns , The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power

See also

• Little Rebels Award

Web links

• official website of the Bread and Roses Awards

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Bread and Roses: The Award ( English ) In: bread-and-roses.co.uk . Bread and Roses Award. 2012. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Alison Flood: New prize for radical writing announces shortlist ( English ) In: The Guardian . March 6, 2012. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
3. ↑ Bread and Roses: Hsiao-Hung Pai wins the Bread & Roses Award 2013 ( English ) In: breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com . The Bread and Roses Award. May 12, 2013. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Bread and Roses: Previous Shortlists ( English ) In: breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com . The Bread and Roses Award. 2013. Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 8, 2015. 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Bread and Roses: The 2014 Shortlist ( English ) In: breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com . The Bread and Roses Award. 2014. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Lisa Campbell: Shortlist for Bread and Roses Award revealed ( English ) In: thebookseller.com . The Bookseller. March 5, 2014. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
7. ↑ Bread and Roses: 'Here We Stand: Women Changing The World' wins the Bread & Roses Award 2015 ( English ) In: breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com . Bread and Roses Award. May 10, 2015. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Bread and Roses: The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2015 Shortlist ( English ) In: breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com . The Bread and Roses Award. March 11, 2015. Accessed July 8, 2015.