Over the last century, historians' criticisms of the industrial capitalism of the Gilded Age have included the
a. romantic idea that industrialization diminished workers' spiritual quality of life.
b. assertion that workers were brutalized by the industrial system.
c. argument that American living standards were not raised by industrialization.
d. claim that American industrialization sharpened class divisions.
e. assertion that most great American fortunes came from inherited wealth.
a, b, d
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