All of the Following Are True Statements About the Workers

All of the following are true statements about the workers in the Lowell factory system EXCEPT

A) they were virtually all New England farm girls.
B) they were carefully supervised on and off the job by watchful matrons.
C) they lived in company boardinghouses and were forbidden to form unions.
D) they worked a maximum five days a week for eight hours a day.
E) they labored under grueling working conditions.