Reddit reviews More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave
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Each wave of feminism thus far has been slow to recognize the impact of class structures on women's lives. This is not a new problem. Scholars were lamenting this lack back in the 80s (here's Angela Davis's take on it from 1983(!)). With each successive generation we are seeing an expansion of awareness, but progress remains slow.
It does not help that today's feminism has been co-opted and to some extent corrupted by the entertainment (nee distraction) arm of our modern consumer capitalist state. Corporate feminism has no desire to acknowledge class issues because doing so would require an acknowledgment of privilege and inequality in a society that continues to stubbornly represent itself as "free" and "equal."
Feminism was never, and will never be a perfect articulation of women's experience; it continues to be a work in progress. I hate its lack of progress on the class issue just as much as you do, but that does not make feminist thought and action any less legitimate, just incomplete.
 
Others have mentioned bell hooks (absolutely essential on this subject; here is her epic critique of Sheryl Sandberg/Lean In) and Barbara Ehrenreich (e.g., Nickel And Dimed). Older but very accessible works that address feminism, consumer capitalism, women's production, technology, and class include:
Another place to look for work on class issues, feminist or otherwise, is in the field of urban studies. Finally, there are talks by almost every author mentioned above (and many others I'm sure) on youtube, definitely try something from bell hooks or Angela Davis at least.
 
Ok I spent way too much time on this but as a working-class woman myself I had to say something after skimming some of the terrible comments in this thread. My best advice to you would be to ignore the flippant responses here and focus on the comments that relate women's personal experiences, or those that offer research. Go offline and try to carve out time in each day for awhile to read some of the more approachable texts on the subject or listen to good talks on youtube. Then use that information to figure out how you want to go forth and make a difference.
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But Penn State historian Ruth Schwartz Cowan composed a pretty compelling case disputing that notion, called More Work For Mother. It's a really interesting read. Her central contention is that household technologies which were nominally designed to save time had no real impact upon the amount of time homemakers spent working, or even increased it, since they were expected to take on more and more labor to fill all the free time they supposedly had. You can read a more condensed version of it here.
https://www.amazon.com/More-Work-Mother-Household-Technology/dp/0465047327