Cash-girls receiving $1.75 a week for work that at certain seasons lengthened their day to sixteen hours were sometimes required to pay for their aprons. A common cause for discharge from stores in which, on account of the oppressive heat and lack of ventilation, “girls fainted day after day and came out looking like corpses,” was too long service. No other fault was found with the discharged saleswomen than that they had been long enough in the employ of the firm to justly expect an increase of salary.
—Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890
It can be concluded from the excerpt that increased industrialization in the late 1800s often led to
A.
unfair and unsafe working conditions.
B.
dangerous and cramped living quarters.
C.
decreased economic growth and prosperity.
D.
increased technology and innovation.