Which of the following statements about American workers is NOT true?
A) Although the Carnegie "rags to riches" experience hardly matched the experience of most workers, opportunity to rise economically-with higher wages and fewer hours-was enjoyed most by white males.
B) Samuel Gompers of the AFL succeeded as a union leader because he advocated radical changes in the structure of American capitalism, rather than merely seeking better wages and working conditions.
C) During the later nineteenth century, labor unions provoked alarm among social and political leaders because of a wave of strikes.
D) To achieve high productivity, managers tended to treat workers as impersonal cogs in the industrial machinery.
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