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Workers attacked the Spinning Jenny mainly because they feared:
ALosing their land
BLosing their tools
CLosing their work
DLosing their homes
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Losing their work
1. The Jenny reduced the demand for labour.
2. The fear of unemployment made workers hostile to the new technology.
3. Women whose spinning work was taken over led the attacks on the machines.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_
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