The factory system focused on efficiency and profit by?
a.) lowering production time and costs through the use of machines.
b.)raising production time and costs through the use of machines.
c.) lowering production time and costs through the use of skilled workers.
d.)raising production time and costs through the use of young children.

The correct answer is option:

A. Lowering production time and costs through the use of machines.

The implementation of the machines increased the efficiency of capitalist production by increasing the productivity that the machines induced.

From the implementation of the machines, more goods were produced in a shorter time and with a smaller amount of labor. This has reduced production costs and increased production efficiency. As a result, profit has increased.

according to the quotation from booker t. washington's 1895 atlanta compromise speech.

in the great leap from slavery to freedom . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . we shall prosper . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor.

washington believed that  hard work had its own kind of dignity.

explanation:

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a.   it resulted in widespread unemployment.