Machines also became simpler to operate, and that gave mill owners an idea as to how they could increase profits. They began to hire women and children to work at the machines, paying them less money than men because, they reasoned, they were less capable than men. Soon mill owners began firing men and hiring children for all but the most skilled positions. Grown men could not find work, and desperate families, living off only their children’s wages, began to send younger and younger children to work in an effort to make ends meet. What basic structure or organizational method does the author use to make connections between the ideas in this paragraph?
a) cause and effect
b) comparison and contrast
c) order of importance
d)spatial
(Give explanation why you got the answer)