She played largely uncredited roles such as secretaries, laundresses and frontierswomen. Mole helped set up specific unions, such as one for (primarily Chinese) laundresses and washerwomen. The guides are dressed either as laundresses or soldiers from 1875. Often their wives followed them, working as cooks, laundresses, and nurses in camp. All the laundresses in the neighborhood go on strike in Vardo's support. The laundresses sing about husbands, lovemaking, and babies. There are copious examples of washerwomen or laundresses in art, see WikiCommons. Many freedwomen worked as cooks and laundresses at the Union camp. Women specialized in a number of jobs&colon; cooks, hairdressers, weavers and laundresses. She supported the London Dock Strike of 1889 and helped organise laundresses. In urban areas Afro-Peruvians were cooks, laundresses, maids, handymen, and gardeners. Approximately thirty-three women, twenty of whom served as laundresses, and fifty-one children accompanied the men. The laundresses paid the owners a fee for the use of the boat. Washerwomen (laundresses) took in the laundry of others, charging by the piece.