In the home, washing machines promised to free women from having to toil over the laundry.

In his play Macbeth Shakespeare has his three witches hovering over their mystical brew chanting “double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.”

All say there is only good mother, I said my father is my pride, cream dye the hair for me, for my hunchback hunch over, greed black got up early for me, for my toil day and night.