In his essay "the laboring classes," orestes brownson argued that:
(a) workers had achieved true freedom to free enterprise.
(b) workers were lazy and easily tempted by alcohol.
(c) wealth and labor were at war.
(d) government was the cause of workers’ problems.
(e) each worker’s problems had to be understood individually.

The best answer to the question: In his essay: "The Laboring Classes" Orestes Brownson argued that:___, would be, C: Wealth and labor were at war.

Explanation:

"The Laboring Classes" is an essay that was written by American author Orestes A. Brownson and it was first published in the Boston Quarterly Review, in 1840. The essay is a text that Brownson published before his conversion into Catholicism in 1844 and it is a pretty powerful critique to the effects that capitalism has had on the living conditions of laborers. Although he mentions the effects of Chartism, a series of legislations that were passed in England in 1837, and savagely critiques certain social movements, especially when it comes to laborers and social equality, in the end he shows that the labor movements, and social instability present not just in England, but in other parts of the world, comes mostly from the difficult situations that laborers are having to face in the world order of his day, while business owners ignored the welfare of their workers for the sake of incrementing their gain. This is why the answer is C.

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