Alberto Prunetti is an Italian writer and translator who worked for a decade as a cleaner, pizza chef, and kitchen assistant. He is the author of a trilogy of working-class novels, one of which appeared in English as Down and Out in England and Italy.

01.07.2022

• Alberto Prunetti

Workers Telling Their Own Stories Can Rebuild Working-Class Pride

Recent years have seen a wave of literature by working-class authors discussing their personal experience of class — stories that often clash with patronizing accounts of the death of the working class.