The growth of industrial manufacturing affected skilled tradesmen by:. a. giving them better wages for fewer hours of work. b. forcing them to perform the same tasks as un-skilled laborers. c. removing control of their labor and their sense of independence. d. allowing them to open their own factories and enter the upper class.

C. Removing control of their labor and their sense of independence.

Explanation:

Before industrial manufacturing became the norm, skilled tradesmen worked in small-scale shops, had a lot of control over their labor, and had a sense of independence.

After industrial manufacturing, many skilled tradesmen went bankrupt because they could not compete with factories, neither in quantity of products made and sold, nor in the price that they could offer. Many of them had to abandom their shops and became industrial workers themselves, losing their autonomy and independence.