Record

Document Reference	Os C 391
Title	Notes by J.E. Denison on Edmund Burke's 'Thoughts [and Details] on Scarcity'; n.d. [1847-49]
Date	1847-1849
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Refers to condition of labouring classes; comments on wage rates and price of commodities; states that labour is commodity which 'rises or falls according to the demand'; refers to relationship between farmers, labourers and profit; believes individual success is to the general good.
Term	economy, England
	publications, books, 'Thoughts and Details on Scarcity'
	poverty, attitudes towards
	manufacture
	social conditions, England

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA10014	Burke; Edmund (1729-1797); Mr; statesman and author	1729-1797
NA199	Denison; J. Evelyn (1800-1873); 1st Viscount Ossington; M.P. Speaker of House of Commons 1857-72 created Viscount Ossington 1872	1800-1873

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