... the way humans interact with their house. There is no possible way to tell how all of these inventions changed the home in this short essay. However, it is possible to discuss the ones that describe the argument of progress the best. The home is a place of residence, a place where we go to relax, eat, sleep, and ironically go to work. In the book More Work for Mother, by Ruth Schwartz Cowan this topic is discussed very thoroughly. The author writes, "Most of the people who do housework do not get paid for it despite the fact that it is, for many of them, a full-time job" (5). The author goes on to describe this sort of job in detail. "The housewife is the last jane-of-all trades in a world from which the jacks-of-all trades have more or less disappeared; she is expected to perform work that ranges ...

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