Bread and Roses Award

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Bread and Roses Award
DateAnnual
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byAlliance of Radical Booksellers
First awarded2012
Websitebreadandrosesprize.wordpress.com

The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing is a British

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 Alliance of Radical Booksellers and has no corporate sponsorship.[2][3]

Bread and Roses is a phrase from the

" – commemorating the event, the strikers supposedly struck "for bread, and for roses too."

The inaugural prize was announced 1 May 2012, on

Winners and shortlists

         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
    • 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
  • 2022 Blue ribbon Florian Grosset, The Chagos Betrayal : How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear[18]
    • 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

References

  1. ^ a b c Bread and Roses Award, official website.
  2. ^ a b c d e Alison Flood (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.
  18. ^ "'The Chagos Betrayal : How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear' by Florian Grosset is winner of the Bread and Roses Award 2022". The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Bread and Roses Award. 30 November 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2023.

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