Excerpt from John Masefield's "The Everlasting Mercy" reprinted by permission
of the Macmillan Publishing Co., copyright © 1912 by Macmillan Publishing Co.,
Inc, renewed 1940 by John Masefield.

Poem by Nikki Giovanni, copyright © 1969 by Nikki Giovanni, from The Black
Woman: An Anthology, edited by Toni Cade, New American Library, 1974.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rubin, Lillian B.

Worlds of pain: life in the working-class family: with a
new introduction by the author / Lillian B. Rubin.

p. cm.

Originally published: 1976.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 0-465-09248-9

I. Working class families—United States.

2. United States—Social conditions—1960- I. Title.

HQ536.R8

1992

305.5 '62-dc20

92-52719 CIP

ISBN: o-465-09246-2 (cloth)

ISBN: 0-465-09247-0 (paper)

ISBN: 0-465-09248-9 (new edition paper)

Copyright © 1976 by Lillian Breslow Rubin.
Introduction to the new paper edition copyright © 1992
by Lillian Breslow Rubin. Published by BasicBooks,
A Member of the Perseus Books Group

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