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Context - Victorian Childhoods - Coggle Diagram
Context - Victorian Childhoods
Poor Laws
Workhouses
Prisons for poor people
Family separation
Children were put to work
Awful conditions
To make them places that people wouldn't want to go
Thomas Malthus
Excess population
Poor people should die in times of abundance
'the surplus population'
Inspired the creation of Scrooge in the beginning
Focus on business and profit - not welfare
Going to work
Children went to work when their families are too poor
Poor wages
People were trapped in a cycle of poverty
Long hours in dangerous and difficult conditions
Most children in workhouses were orphans
Diseases spread easily due to the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions
Children were cheap labour
Dickens
An attempt to create change
The way in which society treats children is the true test of society's moral worth
Writes about childish innocence
'Dickens dwelt on the terrible sights he had seen among the juvenile population in London's jails and doss-houses'
Sparked the of A Christmas Carol
Stressed the need for educating the poor
Laws
There were no laws that protected children
Had few rights
Were treated badly
Many children were abandoned, abused, sold, and brought
1844 Factories Act
9-13 year olds
6 days a week; 9 hours a day
Public Libraries and Ragged Schools
Education and access to books
Basic education received in ragged schools