The document is a paper submitted in 2013 by Bhumi Vajani, an MA student, on the topic of child labor as depicted in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. The paper discusses industrialization, urbanization, class differences, and capitalism during the Victorian Age in England. It also examines Dickens' portrayal of child labor and children as victims, as well as orphanages, within the novel and compares it to the issue of child labor in contemporary India.