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  • industrial revolution
    changes in manufacturing, where fewer things were made by hand and more by machines in big factories
  • social inequality
    the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions
  • deprivation
    hard
    distress
    ruin
  • squalor
    extremely dirty
    unpleasant
  • capital punishment
    the legal killing of a person who has committed a serious crime
  • workhouse
    a place where those unable to support themselves were offered employment
    harsh conditions
  • austere
    very strict and lacking comfort
  • social injustice
    unfair treatment, a situation in which he rights of a person or group of people are ignored, especially by more powerful social groups
  • philanthropy
    the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money and goods
  • Poor Law -1834
    idea to get lazy poor people out of the way - reduced financial help
    sent them to workhouses - terrible conditions - for food and shelter
    families would be separated - children made to work in dangerous conditions
    high death rates
    'the treadmill and the Poor law are in full vigour then?' - Scrooge
    'are there no prisons? are there no workhouses?'- Scrooge