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Sarah Gainsforth recounts her experience as a waitress in a Roman bar, one better than most, and draws an accurate portrait of what it means to work in the restaurant business in Italy today, on starvation wages and off-the-books labor, pursuing the desire for a better life also thanks to grassroots labor organizations working to protect the rights of exploited essential workers, too often depicted as lazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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