Whitening the gray areas of employment: freelance administration, extension or detour of wage institutions?

Summary This thesis studies the hybridization of employment statuses through "portage salarial", a mechanism that allows self-employed workers to have the status of employee by signing an employment contract with a third party employer. Based on a survey of interviews, observations, and documentary analysis (employment contracts, jurisprudence, legal texts, press articles), the thesis, which is situated at the crossroads of the sociology of work and employment, economic sociology, and the sociology of law, undertakes to analyze the various stages of the production and appropriation chain of this particular form of wage employment. It traces the legal and legislative co-construction of the system, studies the way in which portage companies trade this form of employment, and analyzes the bricolages made by workers who try to take advantage of the hybrid situation in which they find themselves.