How did industrialization in the united states change the lives of women and children in the
nineteenth century?
a women and children gained higher social status as business owners.
b women and children were more educated in order to compete for jobs.
c women and children increasingly became wage earns in their families.
d women and children rose as leaders in the movement to organize labor.

Women and children increasingly became wage earns in their families.

Option: (C)

Explanation:

With the advent of industrialization, a large number of people from rural areas migrated to industrial areas. This migration of people excessively fulfilled the need for labor and the labor went on becoming cheaper and cheaper day by day. Soon, it started becoming difficult to run families on the minimal wages earned by only the working male head of the family. Hence, women and children also had to inevitable become wage earners.

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