During the early nineteenth century, many married and widowed working-class women ____________.
A) worked at specialized tasks in the new factories
B) acquired secretarial skills and worked in urban offices
C) became clerks in the new urban department stores
D) sold their domestic skills for wages by working as laundresses, seamstresses, and cooks

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During the early nineteenth century, many married and widowed working-class women sold their domestic skills for wages by working as laundresses, seamstresses, and cooks. They did not work at specialized tasks in the new factories, acquire secretarial skills and work in urban offices or become clerks in the new urban department stores.

During the Early Nineteenth Century, Many Married and Widowed Working-Class