ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on what has been claimed to be the typical form of private justice at work: corrective representative discipline which might loosely be called managerial justice. It shows how this 'form' has been established as typical, before going on to illustrate how it has been penetrated by, and penetrates, the range of other semi-autonomous parts which form the totality of social control. The chapter examines in depth the mutual interdependence between these semi-autonomous parts and through this show not only how each relies upon and indeed constitutes a part of the other, but also how that which constitutes the formal disciplinary policy is merely one of the semi-autonomous parts. Individuals may even rely upon state law and the public with whom they might form alliances to defeat the company disciplinary policy and the management. Not only do the unions have their position penetrated by employee feeling, but so too do the management.
