The Boston Associates began the Lowell mills with the idea that
a. workers would be encouraged to establish labor unions
b. once the mills were up and running, immigrants would replace young farm women
c. factories could be run without the abuses of the English factory system
d. young farm women were an ideal labor supply because they would follow orders unquestioningly
e. the mills would enable them to end U.S. dependence on British textile mills
Answer: c. factories could be run without the abuses of the English factory system
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