EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
Adina Back and Kevin P. Murphy

FEATURE ARTICLES

Dr. Barnardo's 'Artistic Fictions': Photography, Sexuality, and the Ragged Child in Victorian London
Seth Koven

The Culture of the Informal Economy: Numbers Runners in Inter-War Black Detroit
Victoria W. Wolcott

To Fulfill Their 'Rightly Needs': Consumerism and the Welfare Rights Movement
Felicia Kornbluh

Pressures from Below: Pauperism, Chattel Slavery, and the Ideological Construction of Free Market Labor Incentives in Antebellum America
Jonathan Glickstein

TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY

Introduction: Challenging Impoverished Curricula
Judith A. DeGroat

Fighting the War Against Welfare: Teaching the War on Poverty in Historical Perspective
Eileen Boris

The Radical Historians of San Quentin
Theodore Hamm

Challenging a World Taken for Granted: Reflections on Teaching About Social Inequality
Karen Kleeh-Tolley

The History of European and North American Social Policy
Timothy B. Smith

PUBLIC HISTORY

Photography as a Charitable Weapon: Poor Kids and Self-Representation
Julia Ballerini

PAST IN PRINT

In Search of Weeping Worlds: Economies of Agency and Politics of Representation in the Ethnography of Inequality

Review of Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, and Phillipe Bourgois, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio

Yvonne M. Lassalle and Maureen O'Dougherty

Bringing Politics Back In: Health Security and Social Politics in America

Review of Theda Skocpol, Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics

Jennifer Klein

IN MEMORIAM

Raphael Samuel (1934-1996): An Appreciation
Ellen Ross and Judith Walkowitz

Obituary for Raphael Samuel, The Guardian

THE ABUSABLE PAST
R.J. Lambrose

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

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