Where did most factory workers live in the late 19th century?

A. Overcrowded tenements

B. Sturdy Cardboard shacks around the factories

C. small brick homes owned by the company

D. Small cottages in suburbs

the answer in A. Overcrowded tenements

Explanation:

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Taking into account events happened during 19yh century the correct option for this question is A.

Explanation:

The working conditions were dreadful for factory workers during nineteenth century. The factories paid precarious wages to workers that should take them in order to have minimum living conditions. Factory workers could set wages as low as they wanted because people were willing to do work as long as they got paid. Thus, the living conditions were deplorable. The money earned in the factories was not enough to have a decent place. So, that is why workers lived in overcrowded tenements where Five to nine people lived in a single room which was as big as an apartment. They wages received just could pay those kind of rooms.