How did new methods of production affect workers in the first years of the twentieth century?
a. They were large-scale and mechanized, which made workers almost part of the machinery, endangered, and bored.
b. They relied heavily on keeping workers satisfied, which led to safety, wage, and workweek reforms.
c. They depended on the workers' willingness to work, which led to incentives, benefits, and human resource departments.
d. They depended almost totally on automation, eliminating low-skilled jobs and creating high unemployment in this sector.
e. They emphasized a unique product that would be better than the one before, increasing pressure on workers and materialism in consumers.
A
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