In 2000 British director Ken Loach titled a movie Bread and Roses.A housing cooperative in Kitchener, Ontario that specializes in providing affordable housing for people living with HIV and/or AIDS.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. 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.

Oppenheim's poem was set to music in 1976 by Mimi Faria and has been recorded by various artists, including Judy Collins, Ani DiFranco, Utah Phillips, John Denver, and Josh Lucker.

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.

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 strike and slogan have been the inspiration for the names of a diverse collection of organisations and publications. The strikers are credited with inventing the moving picket line (so that they would not be arrested for loitering). The workers won pay increases, time-and-a-quarter pay for overtime, and a promise of no discrimination against strikers. The strike was settled on March 14, 1912, on terms generally favorable to the workers. A republication of Oppenheim's poem in 1912, following the strike, attributed it to 'Chicago Women Trade Unionists'. Ī 1916 labor anthology, The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest by Upton Sinclair, is the first known source to attribute the phrase to the Lawrence strikers.

Many claim that during the strike some of the women carried a sign that said, 'We want bread, but we want roses, too!' No reliable evidence has yet been found to verify this, and the claim has been rejected by some veterans of the Lawrence strike. The Lawrence strike, which united dozens of immigrant communities under the leadership of the Industrial Workers of the World, was led to a large extent by women.

Bread and Roses by Bruce Watson