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CLEP Western Civ II

Category - Industrial Revolution

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Which of the following accounts for the rise in illegitimate births in industrial centers?
  1. Unsupervised youth coming from the country to work in factories.
  2. Better diets and living conditions increased fertility.
  3. Marriage was discouraged during the Industrial Revolution.
  4. Factory owners encouraged workers to have children to keep up the supply of labor.
  5. Economist David Ricardo's popular theory that large families benefitted the poor.
Explanation
Answer: A - The increase in illegitimate children was due to the influx of youth from agricultural areas to urban centers. Without family structures and support, they often turned to each other. The growth of the working class was of great concern to the economists of the day, and Ricardo argued in his theory of the iron law of wages that the working class was destined to remain poor because higher wages would only lead to more children.
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