Which of the following led to the homestead steel strike?

a. many workers were laid off due to failure of the factory to make a profit.

b. women were making half of the wages men made for the same work.

c. management announced that it would be cutting wages for all workers.

d. workers were being kicked out of their company-owned houses.

alternative C, the employees wages would be cut in order for the owners to have more profit since the steel prices decreased sharply. They tried to break the union in Pittsburgh, which helped the workers to fight for better working conditions, including fair wages, and this caused the strike. If they had broken the union, they would lower the wages freely to reduce their costs in a crisis moment.

social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they liv