The passage below is taken from testimony before Parliament.
INTERVIEWER: When a child (ears] 3s, a week, does that go much towards its subsistence?
JOSHUA DRAKE: No, it will not keep it as it should do.
INTERVIEWER: Why do you allow your children to go to work at those places where they are ill-treated or
over-worked?
DRAKE: Necessity compels a man that has children to let them work.
INTERVIEWER: Then you would not allow your children to go to those factories under the present system, if it
was not from necessity?
DRAKE: No.
SOURCE: Testimony given before the Sadler Committee, 1831-32
The testimony above best supports which of the following long-term impacts of the Industrial Revolution?
O A The trend of urbanization in which city populations become larger
OB The increased pollution produced by industrial environments
The eventual outlawing of child labor
OD The failure of labor unions to form to defend workers' rights