What does the word "daunting" (the third sentence, Paragraph three) mean

A．Create situations in which people work for themselves.
B．Treat employment as the norm.
C．Endeavor to revive the household and the neighborhood as centers of production.
D．Encourage people to work in circumstances other than normal working conditions.

A．most people who have been polled believe that the problem of unemployment may not be solved within a short period of time
B．many farmers lost their land when new railways and factories were being constructed
C．in pre-industrial societies housework and community service were mainly carried out by women
D．some of the changes in work pattern that the industrial age brought have been reversed