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According to the passage, Thompson attributes to laboring people in eighteenth-century England which of the following attitudes toward capitalist consumerism?


Is there something wrong in this sentence, what this question asking about?
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Default Re: A meaning of a sentence

It would be clearer if recast as:

According to the passage, which of the following attitudes toward capitalist consumerism does Thompson attribute to laboring people in eighteenth-century England? (and then follow with a list of at least two attitudes toward capitalist consumerism.)
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