Interesting question.
I'm happy retired and not part of the working class. I love making breakfast for everyone. It's like fulfilling a role that a live-in great-aunt held when I was a kid. She staked out the kitchen and asked us what we'd like, one at a time, as we stumbled in.
We've been fortunate and rarely had 9 to 5 type employment, and I can just imaging the overwhelmed circumstances where all the adults had to be at work someplace every morning, and the kids heading off to school.