Bread and Roses
Channel: Alex MacDonald
Date: 08/07/2011

My version of the old feminist labour poem "Bread and Roses".

American Feminist Labour Song

Date written: 1911 - James Oppenheim (poem); 1976 - Mimi Farina (music)

First recorded: 1976 - Judy Collins

The poem became heavily associated with the suffragettes, first and second wave feminism and, in particular, the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike, which was also known as the "Bread and Roses Strike".