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　　(B) perpetuated by those textile-mill owners who argued in favor of women's employment in wage labor

　　(C) one means by which women achieved greater job security

　　(D) reluctantly challenged by employers except when the economic advantages were obvious

　　(E) a constant source of labor unrest in the young textile industry

　　2. According to the passage, historians of women's labor focused on factory work as a more promising area of research than service-sector work because factory work

　　(A) involved the payment of higher wages

　　(B) required skill in detailed tasks

　　(C) was assumed to be less characterized by sex segregation

　　(D) was more readily accepted by women than by men

　　(E) fitted the economic dynamic of industrialism better

　　3. It can be inferred from the passage that early historians of women's labor in the United States paid little attention to women's employment in the service sector of the economy because

　　(A) the extreme variety of these occupations made it very difficult to assemble meaningful statistics about them

　　(B) fewer women found employment in the service sector than in factory work

　　(C) the wages paid to workers in the service sector were much lower than those paid in the industrial sector

　　(D) women's employment in the service sector tended to be much more short-term than in factory work

　　(E) employment in the service sector seemed to have much in common with the unpaid work associated with homemaking

　　4. The passage supports which of the following statements about the early mill owners mentioned in the second paragraph?

　　(A) They hoped that by creating relatively unattractive "female" jobs they would discourage women from losing interest in marriage and family life.

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