The food handlers’ practice on a cultural-historical perspective

Abstract

This article informs on gender and style of action, contributing to new perspectives on organizational studies and new possibilities of understanding the subject within its work environment. The unit of analysis involves the subject, the object and the relationship between them with others subjects, both in terms of gender and style that occur in an activity. The self-confrontation method is used to analyse the practice of Food Handlers (FHs) of a confessional school. The two phases of data collection provided by the method sought to explain the genre and the style of the activities of these workers. The system of rules and regulations indicate a high degree of mechanicity of the workers and is submitted to constant surveillance. Understanding that styles renew genres enables the manager to learn that the invention practiced by individuals within the activity-called stylistic invention-is essential because if it does not happen the genre may be extinguished.