Use the passage below to answer the following question:
How are those men, thus thrown o...
Use the passage below to answer the following question:
How are those men, thus thrown out of employ to provide for their families? Some say, Begin and learn some other business. - Suppose we do; who will maintain our families, whilst we undertake the arduous task; and when we have learned it, how do we know we shall be any better for all our pains; for by the time we have served our second apprenticeship, another machine may arise, which may take away that business also…—Modern History Sourcebook: Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786
What concern about the Industrial Revolution is expressed in the passage?
a. Workers were at risk of having their jobs replaced by machines.
b. New industrial tools were dangerous to workers' health.
c. Workers would be deprived of education because they were forced to work at an early age.
d. Workers' families would have to take extra jobs to support them.
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