Staff leasing. The open-ended supply of labour between prejudice and reality

Introduced by the Biagi Act to provide stability, modern protections and a framework for skilled professional work within the labour market, staff leasing has too often been conflated with precarious employment, as though it were merely a more sophisticated variant of it. A hasty, overly ideological reading has obscured both its true nature and its considerable potential, as this volume seeks to show: not insecure work or the outsourcing of labour, but rather a continuous, open-ended form of internalisation that supports the worker’s professional development; not a diminution of rights, but their reconfiguration within new productive and organisational models. This book invites the reader to break that chain of blindness – to consider the institution for what it is, rather than what it is feared to be. Only by disentangling ideology from reality can one begin to appreciate how staff leasing, in its legal and organisational form, may represent for many workers one of the most advanced expressions of protection in the contemporary world of work.