During the early industrial phase in the nineteenth-century America, textile workers were young women because __________
a. industrial production was a secondary economic activity and unmarried women contributed the least to household economies
b. it was illegal for married women to work outside the home
c. industrial production was a very low-status occupation and men refused those jobs offered to them
d. textile production was unskilled labor
Answer: a
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