This book presents an original multidisciplinary conceptual framework for the analysis of the
processes of construction transformation of workers' social rights. The framework was developed
by taking an analysis of employment and social protection in the Latin European countries as
starting-point and thus offers an innovative alternative to the dominant approaches. It takes
account of the institutional forms determining employees' resource flows and associated rights
and introduces a new analytical category of resource regimes. Four spheres are identified for
the observation of recent resource regime changes: employment systems public policy frameworks
social hierarchies and industrial relations systems. The various chapters explore how each of
these spheres participates in the institution of social rights over resources and identify key
vehicles of change such as transformations in forms of employment labour market policies
pension reforms the swing to a logic of competencies social pacts and the processes involved
in the construction of the European Union. The book brings to the fore the dynamic relation
between employment wages and social rights and aims to contribute to current debates on social
protection reforms and employment policies implemented at both national and European levels.
