Reasons for the growth of the labor movement inlcudes all of the following except: a. low wages and long hours c. child and women began to work outside of the home b. poor and hazardous working conditions d. numerous staged labor strikes by immigrants

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts