Bread and Roses Award
| Bread and Roses Award | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Date | Annual |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | Alliance of Radical Booksellers |
| First awarded | 2012 |
| Official website | http://www.bread-and-roses.co.uk/ |
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 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 GB£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]
Winners and shortlists
- 2012
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years[2]
- Tim Gee, Counterpower: Making Change Happen[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
- 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[5]
- 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 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[6]
- 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, 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[7]
- Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User’s Guide[8]
- Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen and Nawara Mahfoud, Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline[8]
- Tansy E. Hoskins, Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion[8]
- Francesca Martinez, What the **** is Normal?![8]
- James Meek, Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else[8]
- Lara Pawson, In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre[8]
References
- 1 2 3 Bread and Roses Award, official website.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Alison Flood (6 March 2012). "New prize for radical writing announces shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
- ↑ Alliance of Radical Booksellers, official website.
- ↑ Counterpower: Making Change Happen, New Internationalist
- ↑ Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants, Verso Books
- ↑ Lisa Campbell (3 May 2014). "Shortlist for Bread and Roses Award revealed". Bookseller. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.
External links
- Bread and Roses Award, official website.