Efforts at industrial reform in the 1830s and 1840s in Great Britain achieved all of the following EXCEPT the
A) establishment of a national system of trade unions by 1847.
B) reduction of working hours for children to no more than 12 hours a day.
C) outlawing of women and children in coal mines.
D) requirement of daily education for working children.
E) appointment of government factory inspectors.
A
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