Dickens's Christmas Carol

The Children's Employment Commission 1842 was the culmination of three years of investigation into working conditions in mines and factories. Dickens would visit work houses he would visit schools for poor children. One such visit that proved particularly inspirational for the composition of a Christmas Carol was Dickens's visit to the Field Lane Ragged School, a London establishment for street children. In these schools and these workhouses for the poor abuse and neglect was rampant. So Dickens found himself wanting to write a political tract to bring this to people's awareness and to affect social change. He could take everything that he wished to impress upon the public's social conscience and put that into a well-crafted Christian allegory. Though there is debate