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read the passage below and answer the following question. which of the following best describes a major cause for the conditions described in the passage?
"fog everywhere . . fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city . . fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. . chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds."
charles dickens, bleak house1
a. the increase in urban social stratification
b. the growth of economic inequality
c. the spread of steam-powered factories and mills
d. the increase of women in the workforce