When an industry was monopolized by one company or trust during the gilded age, what happened to workers’ wages?
workers often earned more because fewer businesses were competing for their services.
workers often earned less because more businesses were competing for their services.
workers often earned more because more businesses were competing for their services.
workers often earned less because fewer businesses were competing for their services.

I believe the answer is: Workers often earned less because fewer businesses were competing for their services.

In a monopoly, there is one single business that control a certain market without any competitors to threaten them.

When this happen, workers have no other options regarding their selection of work place and the company that hire them that the workers can't afford to lose their job. This give the company huge power in implementing the type of salary that it want.

1.the 80s' fashion for men was like a mixed bag that had skinny tights, leather pants, and jackets, parachute pants (or hammer pants), leg warmers, very short shorts, ripped and stone-washed denims, frilly puff-sleeved shirts, oddly striped shirts, skinny neck ties, hawaiian shirts, jams, nylon tracksuits in neon colors.

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the answer is b: an economic crisis throughout the country.