Q&A: Why did leisure time activities become increasingly important ...

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Question by Caitlin S: Why did leisure time activities become increasingly important to the working class during the late 19 century?
Why did leisure time activities become increasingly important to the working class during the late 19th century?

A)Factory labor was growing more routine and impersonal, and social interactions at the workplace were increasingly inhibited.

B)Working class Americans viewed leisure activity as a method of rising to middle class status.

C)American employers were increasingly emphasizing leisure and relaxation as a method of keeping their workforce happy and healthy.

D)Leisure time activities brought Americans of all ethnicities together and therefore contributed to a process of Americanization that most workers desired.

E)all of these

Best answer:

Answer by old lady
or E) none of these.
In fact, leisure time activities became increasingly important because, for almost the first time, the working class actually had some leisure time.

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