Working-Class Families

Working-Class Families

Lillan Rubin’s World of Pain is a moving study of working-class families, written from socialist and feminist perspectives. In sympathetic prose, Rubin conveys the frustration and anxiety that pervade the lives of the 100 men and women from Northern California whom she interviewed.

Even more clearly than Komarovsky’s Blue Collar Marriage, World of Pain demonstrates how economic hardship and insecurity lie at the heart of much of working-class life...