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The term "work" encompasses a heterogeneous set of activities. Care mus be taken to distinguish child labor from exploitation. Child exploitation is linked not only to poverty, but also to economic exploitation. There is a big difference, there are countries where child labor is non-existent, others where this phenomen on is real scourge. Child exploitation has serious consequences on both physical and psychological health. This seriously harms children who are unaware of what they are handling such as harmful products. Child labor is a global problem. To decrease this phenomenon it is necessary to provide adequate economic support to families, with projects that guarantee jobs for adults.

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He describes the neighborhood near the part of the Thames near Rotherhithe church whose riverbanks were dirty and black, from the smoke and coalfires nearby. To reach the place it was necessary to go into blind and muddy alleys, crowded with rough people and dedicated to illicit trafficking; the visotors makes his way among unloaders of goods, poor woman and children on the street, waste, struck by the noise of the heavy wagons carrying goods. Arriving in less crowded streets, the visitor walks under the walls of tottering house facades, whose windows were closed with rusty grates, a sign of abandon and desolation.

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Social issues: Dickens was socially committed and supported a radical change in society by means of reforms and individual efforts. The problems deriving from industrialisation like social injustices. However, Dickens wasn't a revolutionary thinker, he was a man of his time with a sense of duty.

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PLOT- Dickens underlined the hypocrisyand cruelty of social institution in the workhouses. Is narrated by third-person omniscent narrator. Was published in 1839

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Oliver Twist marks the beginning of Dickens' social criticism. The novel follows the journey of Oliver, an orphan, who spends part of his childhood in an overcrowded workhouse run by the parish. Having ask for more food, Oliver is expelled and runs away and ends up in London.There he meets a boy, who invites him to stay at the house of Fagin, but Oliver in this house become a pickpocket.

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The Victorian Age covers a long period for about 60 years, from the crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her death in 1901. With her reign Great Britain became the most powerful nation in the world. During this time measures were taken by the crown such us: FACTORY ACT-THE 10 HOURS ACT- THE MINES ACT-THE EDUCATION ACT.

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Early Victorian literature, is represented by authors like Charles Dickens who reflected the social issues of the times. Stories often had long complicated plots and subploys that involved many different characters and the stories were set in urban environments. Characters were described in vivid and sometimes comic language

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Late Victorian literature: this tended towards a critical reactio to the contradictiory principles of the Age. Many writers used their works to express bitter criticism of the so-called "VICTORIAN COMPROMISE". Writers wanted to describe the world without idealising it and underline the problems of the time.

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Childhood abuse: poor children are often the protagonist of Dickens' stories. They are usually innocent and wise. With his novels Dickens focuses on the terrible effects of poverty on the individual's life. Sometimes this children were exploited and often victims of illnesses due to their work.

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During one of the outings Oliver is arrested for stealing a handkerchirf from Mr Brownlow. However , Mr Brownlow offers to take care of him. Bill Sikes, the most dangerous member of Fagin's gang, is sent to bring him back to Fagin. Once again, Oliver is sent on a burglary mission but he is shot in the arm. Fgin and his associate Monks, keep looking for him but this time, they fail and Fgin is hanged for his crime and Mr Brownlow discovers he is a distant relative of Oliver's and adopts him.

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Good an evil: in Dickens' world goodness is always rewarded and wickedness is always punished. Dickens create scenes full of humour which amused his readers but, at the same time, confronted them with the hypocritical Victorian attitude.