The contemporary working-class woman works both inside and outside the home, while the bourgeoisie is confined only to the domestic sphere as the predominant space in her daily life and is led to believe that she has the power to "govern" . The woman "sustains" life and family and is the "haystack", an expression that accentuates a "static" component, linked to the perverse concept of "angel of the home". There is a lot of work at home. And if the mistress does not do it, the maid will do it; also a woman but from a lower class. At home there is always work, whether it is cleaning, cooking, ironing, tidying or sewing. Quiet and silent attitude, like a prayer. In the pictures, only one man works, maybe in the attic: a grandfather restores a cradle for the newborn grandson -the continuity of the ancestry. Moms or boys, they rarely laugh -they'll do it when they meet their mates at the laundry. But then they will not be home anymore ...