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Which of the following statement about the lives of industrial workers is correct? And correct the false statements

(i) Workers controlled the industries


(ii) Living conditions of the workers were comfortable


(iii) Low wages was one of the reasons for discontent among the workers


(iv) During the phase of industrialisation, there was an emphasis on emotions and feeling


(v) Romantic writers and artists tried to highlight values of closeness to nature as described in folk tales and folk songs

(i) The statement is false.


Workers do not control industries. Attempts are made by communists, democrats etc. to enable workers to take over the control of the industries


(ii) The statement is false.


The living conditions of workers are not comfortable because they are not paid well. In most cases, they get limited provisions for living.


(iii) The statement is true.


The workers are not paid according to their work. The unpaid labour of the worker is the profit of the industrialists.


(iv) The statement is false.


There is no emphasis on emotions and feeling in the phase of industrialisation. It involves broad re-organisation of an economy for the function of manufacturing.


(v) The statement is true.


Writers and artists manifested humanitarian values in their creative works like tales and folk songs.


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