Question

How did the Industrial Revolution contribute to the changing relationship between middle-class husbands and wives?

A. The shift from human to steam power in shops and factories left many middle-class husbands unemployed, homebound, and a burden to their wives.
B. By the late nineteenth century, most middle-class husbands went to a shop or office to work, thus reducing the prevalence of home-based production, which wives previously supported.
C. The employment of middle-class women in noisy, cramped textile factories required husbands to expand their home-based businesses.
D. As changing social values gave employed middle-class women greater prestige, middle-class husbands took on more household responsibilities.

Answer 1

I believe the answer is C

Answer 2

The correct answer is the letter B.

Women were also forced to look at factory labor, as the wages of male workers, who were considered heads of household, were deeply flattened and no longer guarantee family subsistence. This has radically changed the lives of women, since they began to perform double working hours, because they continued to perform domestic services and perform the functions of reproduction, and in the factory began to develop activities precarious in multitasking functions. Women, as well as working men, were condemned to work because of subsistence needs.