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Which answer best describes why factory owners often hired women and children in the 1800's? They wanted to prevent men from leaving their jobs to work at the factories. They wanted to hire people who work for the lowest wages to increase profits. They wanted to let families work at the same jobs to help keep them strong. They wanted to help women and children, who didn't have many job options at that time.



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ChillinFool
the answer is "they wanted people who would work for the lowest wages to increase profits" 
chilljain33

The factory owners hired children and women during the 1800s for lowering their wages and profit maximization.

What is profit maximization?

Optimum utilization of resources, leading to lowered costs of the organization, and ultimately leading to increase in its revenues is known as profit maximization.

When factory owners gave work to children and women, they had to pay them lower wages, which led to reduction in their costs of production and maximized their profits.

Hence, option B holds true that women and children were hired for profit maximization.

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