Bread and Roses Award

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 Award
Date	Annual
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	Alliance of Radical Booksellers
First award	2012
Website	breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com

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

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