In 1830s England, Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse.
Oliver Twist's mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street and dies just after Oliver's birth. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a terrific home for young orphans and then he is transferred to a workhouse for adults.
Each workhouse was run locally while being centralised through the Poor Law Board. The "guy in the white waistcoat" personifies the smug viciousness of the guardians at Oliver Twist's workhouse, demonstrating how Dickens demonstrates that the administration was administered by self-satisfied and callous individuals.
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