Ebeneezer Scrooge ran a counting house. The closest thing we have these days to that business is an accounting firm. Some counting houses also served as a bank. It doesn't appear that Marley and Scrooge were bankers but they may have been lenders of money as well. Probably not friendly lenders by Scrooge's day, he was a bit stingy with his money.
Bob Cratchit was a clerk in the counting house. He'd have performed the duties of a junior accountant or bookkeeper tracking money in ledgers - not very different than the work they do today.
In those days the clerk was an apprentice to master and could advance with time to owning his own firm or becoming a partner. That's how Scrooge and Marley came to their position, as apprentices.
Scrooge's clerk is responsible for managing his employer's business affairs, including bookkeeping, correspondence, and other administrative tasks. In Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Bob Cratchit is Scrooge's overworked and underpaid clerk who struggles to provide for his family while working for the miserly Scrooge.
Scrooge asks the ghost to assure that tiny Tim would live.
Bob helps to keep Scrooges books up to date from an accountancy perspective
Bob asked Scrooge his he may have Christmas day off "if it were convenient"
Bob has asked Scrooge if he may have Christmas Day off work as it was only one day in the year
He was furious, he felt robbed.
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Bob Cratchit
He was Scrooges clerk
Robert (Bob) Cratchit is Ebenezer Scrooges clerk in the novello A Christmas Carol published in 1843
Bob Cratchit is an employee of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." He is not Scrooge's son; he is his underpaid and overworked employee who is the father of Tiny Tim.
Robert (Bob) Cratchit is Ebenezer Scrooges clerk in the novello A Christmas Carol published in 1843
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Ebenezer
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Fezzwigg
Scrooge came from London
Scrooges housekeeper
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