Q: What does the writer make you feel about Mrs McPherson in The Widow's Might (by Charlotte Perkins Gilman)?

Sugar production requires a great deal of workers.

Explanation: a claim is an affirmation that someone does without evidence or proofs. In this case, the authors express in the excerpt that the sugar production requires a lot of workers, more specifically "an army of workers" and he also claims that they have to do every step in a correct way, on time and they have to work together in order to accomplish their goal (to make sugar).