In the early years of the textile industry in Lowell, Massachusetts, owners of the textile mills were best known for their
(A) Humanitarian refusal to hire women and children as factory operatives
(B) Brutal treatment of their workforces
(C) Idealistic efforts to avoid the worst evils of English industrialization
(D) profit-motivated efforts to replicate the factory system of the English Industrial Revolution
(E) Pioneering efforts to establish labor unions