factory boy

“The time that Charles Dickens spent at Warren’s Blacking factory is unclear and he himself did not seem to be sure.Recent commentators have varied their estimates between six months and a year,but the real point is that the young boy(twelve years old) did not know how long he would remain in employment.He might,as far as he could see,be thrown away forever.There are occasions in his fiction when Dickens seems to be speculating on what it would have been like to have been left in the factory-particularly in his evocations of those children whom nobody notices who slink through the streets.. ”
-‘Dickens’by Peter Ackroyd

A childhood of abuse and neglect did not make Dickens a revolutionary but to the end of his life,he was never able to forget what he experienced as a child
Even as a rich and famous writer he continued to look at bourgeois society,in novels like 'Bleak House' and 'Our Mutual Friend',with the unforgiving eyes of the injured and insulted.
Dickens is the only one who wrote consciously for the masses from the victim's point of view.