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ACC: Context research (Class Division & social criticism (The Upper…
ACC: Context research
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Poverty
Poor laws
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ensured that the poor were housed in workhouses, clothed and fed.
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In return for this care, all workhouse paupers would have to work for several hours each day.
Some people, such as Richard Oastler, spoke out against the new Poor Law, calling the workhouses ‘Prisons for the Poor’. The poor themselves hated and feared the threat of the workhouse so much that there were riots in northern towns.
deliberately harsh, so that only those who desperately needed help would ask for it.
Prisons
damp, unhealthy, insanitary and over-crowded
All kinds of prisoners were mixed in together, as at Coldbath Fields: men, women, children; the insane; serious criminals and petty criminals; people awaiting trial; and debtors
Thomas Malthus
He believed that through preventative checks and positive checks, the population would be controlled to balance the food supply with the population level.
conclude that populations will grow faster than the supply of food. This exponential population growth will lead to a shortage of food.
natural forces would correct the imbalance between food supply and population growth in the form of natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes and human-made actions such as wars and famines.
In A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge becomes the mouthpiece of Thomas Malthus, who argued that England's population growth would supersede food supply, so the poor had no right to live if they were not productive and could not contribute to the economy and sustain themselves.
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Dickens' personal life
His first romantic relationship, with Maria Beadnell, had ended badly.
Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair.
his father was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea prison, Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory.
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