Question

According to the passage, which of the following is true of the unemployment rates mentioned in line 15?

• A. They hovered, on average, around 15 percent during the period 1870-1920
• B. They give less than a full sense of the impact of unemployment on working-class people.
• C. They overestimate the importance of middle class and white-collar unemployment.
• D. They have been considered by many historians to underestimate the extent of working-class unemployment.
• E. They are more open to question when calculated for years other than those of peak recession.

Answer 1

The correct option is B They give less than a full sense of the impact of unemployment on working-class people.

Earlier historians used methods to analyze the joblessness primarily focussed on the recession and before. But the effect on working class people has not been touched until now. This is expresses in option (b)