May I recommend "The man in the white suit", a British comedy from the 50s that predicted this development.

  http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0044876/

It's fun, but also a time capsule of capital vs labor in the 1950s.

The evolution of the home clothes washer pretty much eliminated the half of the labor argument: people don't send most of their laundry out to be cleaned much anymore.