How Did the Expansion of the Industrial Revolution Affect the Work

How did the expansion of the Industrial Revolution affect the work life of the middle class?

A) The middle class increasingly used their ownership of businesses to distance themselves from active roles in the economy.
B) The middle class established a range of new professions, which required specialized knowledge and advanced education.
C) Increasingly undermined by wealthy industrialists, the middle class turned into wage laborers with a standard of living barely above that of the laboring poor.
D) The middle class left management positions in large private and public organizations, believing them to be beneath their dignity.