The 1847 ten-hour act stated that could only work up to ten hours a day. men men and children women and children men and women

The correct answer is C) women and children.

The 1847 Ten-Hour Act stated that women and children could only work up to ten hours a day.  

This act limited the time women and children could work in a textile mill. The act established the maximum number of hours to ten, from Monday to Friday. And for Saturday, just eight hours. This resolution was possible due to the efforts of John Fielden and Lord Ashley, an active member of the British Parliament. The Act represented a decent change in the long hours of work that people had to spend in the mills in those years.

answer: both considered peasants valued members of society.

explanation: the ancient chinese and indian empires were large asian empires that had the same problems with other big empires, they had to work hard and sometimes fight in order to keep them united, they both relied heavily on their capacity to trade and to send strange and rare items to europe, and had the father as the head of the house hold in both societies, but they didn´t considered pleasants as valued members of their society, they were the bottom of the social pyramid in both of their societies.