which statement about the working and living conditions of early industrial workers is accurate?
a.
many workers used owner-financed training programs to become skilled craftsmen.

b.
women and children who were employed in mills and factories earned the same wages as men.

c.
most employees in factories and mills worked eight hours per day, five days a week.

d.
laborers faced long hours, dangerous working conditions, and lived in overcrowded tenements.

D. Laborers faced long hours, dangerous working conditions, and lived in overcrowded tenements.

Explanation:

The Industrial Revolution or First Industrial Revolution is the process of economic, social and technological transformation that began in the second half of the 18th century in the Kingdom of Great Britain, which extended a few decades later to a large part of Western Europe and Anglo-Saxon America, and which ended between 1820 and 1840. During this period the greatest set of economic, technological and social transformations in the history of mankind was experienced since the Neolithic, which saw the transition from a rural economy based fundamentally on agriculture and trade to a Economy of urban, industrialized and mechanized character.

As a result of the agricultural and demographic revolution, there was a massive exodus of peasants to the cities; the old farmer became an industrial worker. The industrial city increased its population as a result of the natural growth of its inhabitants and the arrival of this new human contingent. The lack of rooms was the first problem suffered by this socially marginalized population; He had to live in small spaces without minimal comforts and lacking in hygiene. Added to this were days of work, which reached more than fourteen hours a day, in which men, women and children participated with miserable salaries, and lacking legal protection against the arbitrariness of the owners of the factories or production centers. This set of evils that affected the urban proletariat was called the social question, referring to the material and spiritual inadequacies that affected them.

c is the correct answer for this question.