An increasingly efficient agricultural industry freed British workers for factory employment.
What is the meaning of this sentence?
A. More workers were employed in factories
B. More workers left factories and back to farming?

Question

An increasingly efficient agricultural industry freed British workers for factory employment.
What is the meaning of this sentence? 
A. More workers were employed in factories
B. More workers left factories and back to farming?

Answer

A.
Agriculture became more efficient and needed fewer workers to produce the same (or greater) amount of food, so people who had been engaged in agriculture previously were able to go to cities and get employed at factories.

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