What is the main reason that employers hired young boys and girls to work in factories and mines? children need work and did not complain. employers paid children less than they paid adults. children learned quicker than adults did. children were healthier than adults and were not as likely to become sick or injured.

b. ensure mutual protection from communism.

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to reform the distraught soviet union, the democratization of the communist party was promoted through party secretary mikhail gorbachev's policies of “perestroika” and “glasnost.” perestroika refers to the reconstruction of the political and economic system established by the communist party.