There is a brutal constancy to the workweeks of these two women: 72-hour weeks piled one atop another.

In Corona, Queens, Celina Alvarez chops chayote and avocados and chickens in a dank restaurant basement. And a few blocks away, Rocio Loyola makes juice drinks.

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