The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing is a British

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presented for the best

radical Radical may refer to: Politics and ideology Politics *Radical politics, the political intent of fundamental societal change *Radicalism (historical), the Radical Movement that began in late 18th century Britain and spread to continental Europe and ...

book published each year, with ''radical book'' defined as one that is "informed by

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and

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concerns"Bread and Roses Award
official website. – 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. Winning authors receive . The Bread and Roses Award is sponsored by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers and has no corporate sponsorship. ''Bread and Roses'' is a phrase from the Bread and Roses strike of 1912 among textile workers in

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. In a song – "

Bread and Roses "Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated from a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" inspired ...

" – commemorating the event, the strikers supposedly struck "for bread, and for roses too." The inaugural prize was announced 1 May 2012, on

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, at the Bread and Roses pub in

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Winners and shortlists

*2012

David Graeber David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books '' Debt: The First 5,000 Years'' (2011) and ''Bullshit Jobs ...

, '' Debt: The First 5,000 Years'' **

Tim Gee Tim Gee is a writer and political activist in the United Kingdom, who popularised the concept of counterpower, and has written about pacifism and the Occupy Movement. Personal life Early life Gee was born in Stockport, United Kingdom in the mi ...

, ''Counterpower: Making Change Happen'' ** Nadia Idle and

Alex Nunns Alex Nunns is a British author, editor and political activist. Life and career Nunns is political correspondent for '' Red Pepper''; contributing articles on British politics and international developments. He has written for other outlets includi ...

(editors), ''Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt’s Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made It'' **

Owen Jones Owen Jones (born 8 August 1984) is a British newspaper columnist, political commentator, journalist, author, and left-wing activist. He writes a column for ''The Guardian'' and contributes to the ''New Statesman'' and ''Tribune.'' He has two w ...

, '' Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class'' **

Andy Merrifield Andy Merrifield (born 1960) is a Marxist urban theorist. Background He was born in Liverpool, UK. and attended Quarry Bank School until 1976. He left school at 16 and did office jobs and travelled. He graduated in geography, philosophy and sociol ...

, ''Magical Marxism'' **

Laurie Penny Laurie Penny (born Laura Barnett, 28 September 1986) is a British journalist and writer. Penny has written articles for publications including ''The Guardian,'' ''The New York Times'' and ''Salon''. Penny is a contributing editor at the ''New ...

, ''Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent'' **

Nicholas Shaxson Nicholas Shaxson (born 1966) is a British author, journalist and investigator. He is best known for his investigative books ''Poisoned Wells'' (2007) and '' Treasure Islands'' (2011). He has worked as a part-time writer and researcher for the Tax ...

, '' 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 Danny Dorling (born 16 January 1968) is a British social geographer. Since 2013, he has been Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography of the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford. He is also a visiting professor ...

, ''No-Nonsense Guide to Equality'' **

Donny Gluckstein Donny Gluckstein (born 1954) is a British historian at Edinburgh College. He went to the University of Warwick in 1974 and graduated in history. The son of Tony Cliff and Chanie Rosenberg, he is the author of numerous books and articles. In 201 ...

, ''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'' **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 Andrew Simms is an author, analyst and co-director of the New Weather Institute. He is a research associate with the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and Fellow at the New Economics Foundation. Andrew Simms advoca ...

, ''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'' **

Ha-Joon Chang Ha-Joon Chang (; ; born 7 October 1963) is a South Korean institutional economist, specialising in development economics. Chang is the author of several widely discussed policy books, most notably ''Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strateg ...

, '' 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 Francesca Martinez (born 1978) is an English comedian, writer and actress. She has cerebral palsy, but prefers to describe herself as "wobbly". Martinez first came to public attention in 1994, when she made her debut on the television series ' ...

, ''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'' *2016

Jeremy Seabrook Jeremy Seabrook (born 1939) is an English author and journalist specialising in social, environmental and development issues. His book ''The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny'' was longlisted for the Orwell Prize. Early ...

, ''The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh'' ** Phil Chamberlain and Dave Smith, ''Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists'' ** 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

, ''The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power'' **

Dawn Foster Dawn Hayley Foster (12 September 1986 – 9 July 2021) was an Irish-British journalist, broadcaster, and author writing predominantly on social affairs, politics, economics and women's rights. Foster held staff writer positions at ''Inside Housi ...

, ''Lean Out'' ** 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 Sheila Rowbotham (born 27 February 1943) is a British socialist feminist theorist and historian. Early life Rowbotham was born on 27 February 1943 in Leeds (in present-day West Yorkshire), the daughter of a salesman for an engineering company a ...

, ''See Red Women’s Workshop – Feminist Posters 1974-1990'' ** Jack Shenker, ''The Egyptians: A Radical Story'' **

Gary Younge Gary Andrew Younge , (born January 1969) is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and academic. He was editor-at-large for ''The Guardian'' newspaper, which he joined in 1993. In November 2019, it was announced that Younge had been appointe ...

, '' Another Day in the Death of America'' *2018 Stuart Hall, ''Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands'' (with Bill Schwarz) (joint winner) :

Reni Eddo-Lodge Reni Eddo-Lodge (born 25 September 1989) is a British journalist and author, whose writing primarily focuses on feminism and exposing structural racism. She has written for a range of publications, including ''The New York Times'', ''The Guard ...

, ''Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race'' (joint winner) :*

Kapka Kassabova Kapka Kassabova (born in November 1973, in Bulgarian Капка Касабова) is a poet and writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction. Her mother tongue is Bulgarian, but she writes in English. Life Kapka Kassabova was born and grew up in S ...

, ''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 Liz Fekete is director of the Institute of Race Relations, where she has worked since 1982. She researches racism, Islamophobia and far-right extremism in Europe. She also speaks to the media on these topics. Fekete was a member of the Campaign Aga ...

, ''Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right'' ** 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 Daniel Trilling is a British journalist, editor and author. He was the editor of ''New Humanist'' magazine from 2013 to 2019. He writes about migration, nationalism and human rights and is the author of ''Lights in the Distance: exile and refuge ...

, ''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 Johny Pitts is an English television presenter, writer and photographer from Firth Park, Sheffield. Biography He is of mixed-race heritage (his father Richie was from Bed–Stuy, New York and was in the 1970s soul band The Fantastics, wh ...

, ''Afropean: Notes from Black Europe'' ** 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 Priyamvada Gopal (born 1968) is an Indian-born academic, writer and public intellectual who is Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. Her primary teaching and research interests are in coloni ...

, ''Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent'' **

Kate Charlesworth Kate Charlesworth (born 1950) is a British cartoonist and artist who has produced comics and illustrations since the 1970s. Her work has appeared in LGBT publications such as ''The Pink Paper'', ''Gay News'', ''Strip AIDS'', ''Dyke's Delight'', ...

, ''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'' ** Stella Dadzie, ''A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance'' ** Marcus Gilroy-Ware ''After the Fact? The Truth About Fake News'' ** Emma Griffin, ''Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy'' **

Owen Hatherley Owen Hatherley (born 24 July 1981 in Southampton, England) is a British writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture. Early life Hatherley was born in Southampton in 1981, growing up in a 1930s ...

, ''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'' ** 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''

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*{{Official website, https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/ Awards established in 2012 2012 establishments in the United Kingdom British non-fiction literary awards Political book awards