| Bread and Roses Award | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Date | Annual |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | Alliance of Radical Booksellers |
| First award | 2012 |
| Website | breadandrosesprize |
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 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]
| Year | Author | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | David Graeber | Debt: The First 5,000 Years | Won | [2] |
| Tim Gee | Counterpower: Making Change Happen | Shortlisted | [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 | Shortlisted | ||
| Owen Jones | Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class | Shortlisted | ||
| Andy Merrifield | Magical Marxism | Shortlisted | ||
| Laurie Penny | Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent | Shortlisted | ||
| Nicholas Shaxson | Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World | Shortlisted | ||
| 2013 | Hsiao-Hung Pai | Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants | Won | [5] |
| Federico Campagna and Emanuele Campiglio (editors) | What We Are Fighting For: A Radical Collective Manifesto | Shortlisted | ||
| Danny Dorling | No-Nonsense Guide to Equality | Shortlisted | ||
| Donny Gluckstein | A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire | Shortlisted | ||
| Eveline Lubbers | Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists | Shortlisted | ||
| Paul Mason | Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions | Shortlisted | ||
| Daniel Poyner (editor) | Autonomy: The Cover Designs of Anarchy 1961–1970 | Shortlisted | ||
| Dan Swain | Alienation: An Introduction to Marx's Theory | Shortlisted | ||
| 2014 | Joe Glenton | Soldier Box: Why I Won't Return to the War on Terror | Won | [6] |
| Rob Evans and Paul Lewis | Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police | Shortlisted | ||
| Oscar Guardiola-Rivera | Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973 | Shortlisted | ||
| Barry Kushner and Saville Kushner | Who Needs the Cuts?: Myths of the Economic Crisis | Shortlisted | ||
| Katharine Quarmby | No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers | Shortlisted | ||
| Andrew Simms | Cancel the Apocalypse: The New Path to Prosperity | Shortlisted | ||
| Imogen Tyler | Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain | Shortlisted | ||
| 2015 | Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones | Here We Stand: Women Changing The World | Won | [7] |
| Ha-Joon Chang | Economics: The User's Guide | Shortlisted | [8] | |
| Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen, and Nawara Mahfoud | Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline | Shortlisted | [8] | |
| Tansy E. Hoskins | Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion | Shortlisted | [8] | |
| Ken Loach | The Spirit of '45 | Shortlisted | [8] | |
| Richard Seymour | The Meaning of David Cameron | Shortlisted | [8] | |
| S. M. R. Anis | The Left Behind | Shortlisted | [8] | |
| 2016 | Jeremy Seabrook | The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh | Won | [9] |
| Phil Chamberlain and Dave Smith | Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists | Shortlisted | [10] | |
| Kate Evans | Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg | Shortlisted | ||
| Mel Evans | Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts | Shortlisted | ||
| Rhian E. Jones | Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots | Shortlisted | ||
| Katrine Marçal | Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics | Shortlisted | ||
| 2017 | Alex Nunns | The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power | Won | [11] |
| Dawn Foster | Lean Out | Shortlisted | [12] | |
| Andrea Needham | The Hammer Blow: How 10 Women Disarmed a War Plane | Shortlisted | ||
| Lara Pawson | This is the Place to Be | Shortlisted | ||
| See Red Members & Sheila Rowbotham | See Red Women's Workshop – Feminist Posters 1974-1990 | Shortlisted | ||
| Jack Shenker | The Egyptians: A Radical Story | Shortlisted | ||
| Gary Younge | Another Day in the Death of America | Shortlisted | ||
| 2018 | Stuart Hall and Bill Schwarz | Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands | Won | [13] |
| Reni Eddo-Lodge | Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race | Won | ||
| Kapka Kassabova | Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe | Shortlisted | ||
| Heather McDaid (Editor), Laura Jones (Editor) | Nasty Women | Shortlisted | ||
| Vickie Cooper, David Whyte (editors) | The Violence of Austerity | Shortlisted | ||
| Dave Randall | Sound System: The Political Power of Music | Shortlisted | ||
| 2019 | Liz Fekete | Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right | Won | [14] |
| Akala | Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire | Shortlisted | ||
| June Eric-Udorie (Editor) | Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen Writers on Intersectionality, Identity and Finding the Right Way Forward for Feminism | Shortlisted | ||
| Juno Mac and Molly Smith | Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights | Shortlisted | ||
| Daniel Trilling | Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe | Shortlisted | ||
| Mike Wendling | Alt Right: From 4chan to the White House | Shortlisted | ||
| 2020 | Johny Pitts | Afropean: Notes from Black Europe | Won | [15] |
| Frances Ryan | Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People | Shortlisted | ||
| Becky Alexis-Martin | Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima | Shortlisted | ||
| Ruth Kinna | The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism | Shortlisted | ||
| Priyamvada Gopal | Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent | Shortlisted | ||
| Kate Charlesworth | Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide. A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020 | Shortlisted | ||
| 2021 | Ellen Clifford | The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe | Won | [16] |
| Stella Dadzie | A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance | Shortlisted | [17] | |
| Marcus Gilroy-Ware | After the Fact? The Truth About Fake News | Shortlisted | ||
| Emma Griffin | Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy | Shortlisted | ||
| Owen Hatherley | Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London | Shortlisted | ||
| Dan Hicks | The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution | Shortlisted | ||
| Olivette Otele | African Europeans: An Untold History | Shortlisted | ||
| 2022 | Florian Grosset | The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear | Won | [18] |
| Koshka Duff et al | Abolishing the Police | Shortlisted | ||
| Hsiao-Hung Pai | Ciao Ousmane: The Hidden Exploitation of Italy's Migrant Workers | Shortlisted | ||
| Gargi Bhattacharyya et al | Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State | Shortlisted | ||
| Matthew Brown and Rhian E Jones | Paint Your Town Red | Shortlisted | ||
| 2023 | ||||
| Aviah Day and Shanice McBean | Abolition Revolution | Won | [19] | |
| Jeffrey Boakye | I Heard What You Said | Shortlisted | ||
| Ione Gamble | Poor Little Sick Girls | Shortlisted | ||
| Elias Jahshan (editor) | This Arab Is Queer | Shortlisted | ||
| Kojo Koram | Uncommon Wealth | Shortlisted | ||
| 2024 | ||||
| Annabel Sowemimo | Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare | Won | [20] | |
| Kaamil Ahmed | I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas & Rivers | Shortlisted | ||
| Hil Aked | Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity | Shortlisted | ||
| Robert Chapman | Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism | Shortlisted | ||
| Danny Dorling | Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State | Shortlisted | ||
| Malu Halasa | Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran | Shortlisted |
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