Bread and Roses - Legacy

Legacy

The strike and slogan have been the inspiration for the names of a diverse collection of organisations and publications.

• The use of the rose by the Irish Labour Party -- and its sister parties around the world—owes it its origins to the slogan.
• The poem was partially reproduced and its title borrowed in an early second-wave feminist article on women's liberation by Kathy McAfee and Myrna Wood published in the American New Left magazine Leviathan in June 1969.
• Oppenheim's poem was set to music in 1974 by Mimi Fariña and has been recorded by various artists, including Judy Collins, Ani DiFranco, Utah Phillips, John Denver, and Josh Lucker.
• An earlier musical setting of the poem by Caroline Kohlsaat appears in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition.
• New Zealand Labour Party Member of Parliament, Union leader, and women's rights campaigner Sonja Davies called her autobiography Bread and Roses, after the poem. This autobiography was the basis of a successful New Zealand mini-series directed by Gaylene Preston, which concentrates upon Davies's early life as a single mother organiser of protest action to keep her local railway line open.
• In 2000 British director Ken Loach titled a movie Bread and Roses. The film is about the struggle of two Mexican labourers in Los Angeles, performed by Pilar Padilla and Elpidia Carrillo, for the right to form a union. It depicts an episode in the ongoing Justice for Janitors campaign, which is run by the Service Employees International Union.
• A quarterly journal produced by the UK section of the Industrial Workers of the World ('Wobblies')
• A Labor Day celebration, Bread and Roses Heritage Festival, in Lawrence, Massachusetts
• Mount Holyoke College seniors sing a song titled "Bread and Roses" during their Laural Parade at graduation.
• Bryn Mawr College seniors sing the same song at the conclusion of their three annual traditions' nights.
• A memorial to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in Havana, Cuba reads: "For Peace Bread And Roses We Will Face The Executioner. Ethel And Julius Rosenberg. Murdered June 19, 1953."
• A feminist radio show on KBOO in Portland, Oregon.
• A Catholic Worker advocacy center in Olympia, Washington.
• A feminist group from Argentina (Pan y Rosas) associated with a political party called "Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas" (PTS, Socialist Workers Party) webpage: www.pyr.org.ar
• A community fund in Philadelphia.
• 'Bread + Roses' is the title of song 7 on Mr Hudson & The Library's album 'A Tale of Two Cities'.
• A now-defunct folk-punk band based in Boston.
• A feminist magazine from Zagreb, Croatia. Original title "Kruh & Ruže". Published by Ženska infoteka between Autumn 1993 and March 2009.
• A free cafe feeding homeless people and those living in poverty in Venice, California, a project of St. Joseph Center.