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The development of temporary agency work in France has often been analyzed as a result of its regulation, which allows companies to use it and temporary work agencies to market it. However, these rights have been added to constraints that encumber exchanges between agencies, companies, and workers. To understand how they could cooperate, this article puts forward a strategic and systemic analysis of the social uses of these permissive and restrictive rules. The study reveals both the mechanisms of the law’s instrumentalization and managerialization and how this restrictive law has allowed agencies to consolidate their position. Legal constraints can thus be the conditions of action and exchanges.