Correct. The answer is a. The author’s main point in this section is that, as industrialization eroded workers’ skills, wages, and working conditions in the 1870s and 1880s some of them organized to resist these changes, but their efforts were countered by employers’ counterattacks, government repression, and violence.
Incorrect. The answer is a. The author’s main point in this section is that, as industrialization eroded workers skills, wages, and working conditions in the 1870s and 1880s some of them organized to resist these changes, but their efforts were countered by employers’ counterattacks, government repression, and violence.