Explanation: According to Thorndike's law of effect, actions or behaviors that causes a positive response, reactions or situations are likely to be repeated while actions or behaviors that causes a negative reaction, response or situation are likely to be avoided. When your actions produces discomfort, you will avoid such actions next time but when it is pleasant and acceptable, that action will be repeated next time.
As factories were being built, businesses were in need of workers. With a long line of people willing to work, employers could set wages as low as they wanted because people were willing to do work as long as they got paid.
Cuneiform law, the body of laws revealed by documents written in cuneiform, a system of writing invented by the ancient Sumerians and used in the Middle East in the last three millennia bc.