The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016 Shortlist

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016. Now in its fifth year, the Bread & Roses Awards seeks to celebrate excellence in the field of radical political non-fiction.

Previous winners include David Graeber’s ‘Debt: The First 5000 Years’ and Hsiao-Hung Pai’s ‘Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants’.

The winner will be announced by guest judges Natalie Bennett and Nina Power at a ceremony at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday 7^th May 2015. Also announced at this ceremony will be the ARB’s children’s prize, The Little Rebel’s Children’s Book Award, the shortlist for which will be announced at the end of the month.

THE 2016 SHORTLIST 

‘Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts’ by Mel Evans (Pluto Press)

‘Blacklisted: The secret war between big business and union activists’ by Phil Chamberlain and Dave Smith (New Internationalist)

‘Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots’ by Rhian E. Jones (University of Wales Press)

‘Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg’ by Kate Evans (Verso)

‘The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh’ by Jeremy Seabrook (Hurst)

‘Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics’ by Katrine Marcal (Portobello)

The winner of the award will receive a cheque for £500. The ARB would like to thank the General Federation of Trade Unions for funding this year’s award.

To view the longlist please visit: https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/the-bread-and-roses-longlist-2016/