All of the Following Are True Statements About the Workers

question 35

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true statements about the workers in the Lowell factory system except  

• A) they were virtually all New England farm girls.
• B) they were carefully supervised on and off the job by watchful matrons.
• C) they lived in company boardinghouses and were forbidden to form unions.
• D) they worked a maximum five days a week for eight hours a day.
• E) they labored under grueling working conditions.

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