One important benefit of the emergence of a new mass society was
A. greater unity between European factory workers and middle-classes, which together composed about 55 percent of the population.
B. increased voting rights for the lower classes.
C. development of a working class, comprising 45 percent of the population, whose numbers caused middle-class Europeans to fear a seizure of power by the workers.
D. greater equality between the sexes.
E. increasingly successful labor activism.
Answer: B
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