Introduction; Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. The ECHR and socio-economic rights protection; 2. Making sense of ECtHR's socio-economic protection; 3. The stages of fundamental rights adjudication; Part II. Core Rights Protection: 4. Core rights as limits to limitations; 5. Minimum cores and the scope of fundamental rights; 6. Core socio-economic content; Part III. Core Socio-Economic Rights and the ECtHR: 7. A core rights perspective for the ECtHR; 8. Core socio-economic rights in the case law of the ECtHR; Conclusion.