Roberto Mania, a journalist, was a correspondent for Repubblica. He has written for the magazine il Mulino. In 1997, he won the Walter Tobagi award for trade union journalism. For Egea, he wrote The Wage Question (2025) with Andrea Garnero and Silent Capitalists. The Revenge of Family Businesses (2024). He has also written Dangerous Relations. Unions and Politics After Concertation (with Gaetano Sateriale, 2002), Nomenklatura. Who Really Rules in Italy (with Marco Panara, 2014).