The objective of this article is to expose the mechanisms of control and the developed tactics front it in the laboratory of analysis of foods and waters, associated to a pharmacy college of a public university in the state of Minas Gerais. It was used the ideas of Foucault on discipline power and the ideas of Certeau on tactics. The methodology resources were interviews, secondary data and observation. The results of the research denotes the control mechanisms on the activities of work, as the rules of behavior and sophisticated equipment operation, control of the schedules and clothes and, still, indication of some pupils for this exercise. The results also indicate the existence of tactics that dribble such mechanisms in the execution of the daily work. The article also presents a discussion on the paradox identified during the inquiry in which the producers of the tactics desire more control directed at their own persons. A questioning of the theoretical bases that were used initially for the elaboration of the article is presented and a proposal of a debate on the idea of voluntary servitude of La Boétie is made.
control; power; practices and tactics of power
