One of the Primary Obstacles to Working Class Solidarity and Organization

question 100

Multiple Choice

One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organization in America was

• A) ethnic diversity.
• B) the lack of a reform impulse in America.
• C) the generally fair treatment that workers received from their employers.
• D) the hostility of the Catholic Church to social reform.
• E) the growing Communist influence in the labor movement.

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