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The Great Transformation

(Or Economic Growth in the Postwar Period, 1950–1973)

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Food and Foodways in Italy from 1861 to the Present

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The worker Arturo Massolari was doing the night shift, the one that finishes at six. It was a long way to get home. When the weather was good he went by bicycle, but in the rainy winter months he took the streetcar. He got home between a quarter to seven and seven, namely a little before or a little after the ringing of his wife Elide’s alarm clock.

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Scarpellini, E. (2016). The Great Transformation. In: Food and Foodways in Italy from 1861 to the Present. Worlds of Consumption. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137569622_5

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