According to the passage, which of the following is true of Keyssar’s findings concerning unemployment in Massachusetts?

They tend to contradict earlier findings about such unemployment.

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They are possible because Massachusetts has the most easily accessible historical records.

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They are the first to mention the existence of high rates of geographical mobility in the nineteenth century.

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They are relevant to a historical understanding of the nature of unemployment in other states.

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They have caused historians to reconsider the role of the working class during the Great Depression.

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Solution

The correct option is D They are relevant to a historical understanding of the nature of unemployment in other states.
As per the passage Massachusetts is where the historical materials are particularly rich, and the findings applicable to other industrial areas. Hence the findings of the place are relevant to other states as well. This is expressed best in option (d).

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Since the early 1970’s, historians have begun to devote serious attention to the working class in the United States. Yet while we now have studies of working-class communities and culture, we know remarkably little of worklessness. When historians have paid any attention at all to unemployment, they have focused on the Great Depression of the 1930’s. The narrowness of this perspective ignores the pervasive recessions and joblessness of the previous decades, as Alexander Keyssar shows in his recent book. Examining the period 1870-1920, Keyssar concentrates on Massachusetts, where the historical materials are particularly rich, and the findings applicable to other industrial areas.

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