ABSTRACT
This chapter primarily draws on a depth study of one large food manufacturing company, Foodstuffs Ltd and in particular on interviews with managers, unionists and employees about the company's participatory approach to discipline. A minority of employees are aware of the co-option that participatory justice implies. The case of managerial justice, the on state law is drawn as an extension of the internal form of private justice. The autonomy of private justice is relied on by the state to exercise some of its control and in the course of doing so it has some of its concepts of law penetrated. But the accommodation of crime by the disciplinary process itself suggests that, relative to the perceived notion of the operation of formal law, the employee is getting fairer treatment. The legitimation deriving from the interdependence and exchange of state law concepts and personnel is limited by the trade union representatives to the tribunal who themselves draw on state law concepts.
