Question

Which statement accurately describes the working or living conditions of early industrial laborers? A. They lived in government-provided clean, well-ventilated apartments. B. They received health and retirement benefits from their employers. C. They endured crowded tenements with poor sanitation and polluted water. D. They had union representation to ensure safe working conditions.

Answer 1

Answer:

C. They endured crowded tenements with poor sanitation and polluted water.

Explanation:

Urban, industrialized regions were not able keep pace with the stream of arriving laborers from the countryside, bringing about deficient, stuffed lodging and dirtied, unsanitary living conditions in which desease was wild.

Answer 2

"C. They endured crowded tenements with poor sanitation and polluted water" is the best description of the working or living conditions of early industrial laborers.