What features characterized the 1880s movement known as new unionism?
A) It featured nationwide unions with salaried managers who could organize a widespread general strike across the trades, focusing on common goals such as the eight-hour workday.
B) It was built around craft-based unions of skilled artisans, such as carpenters and painters, who focused on the issues that affected their particular craft.
C) It emerged out of working-class political parties throughout Europe and focused on organizing workers around political causes such as universal manhood suffrage.
D) It first organized as a movement dedicated to improving the conditions of female workers but later expanded to focus on the social conditions of all workers.
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