The aim of this course is to provide students with a historical, theoretical, and comparative understanding of the structural transformations in employment forms and their impacts on industrial relations. Within the scope of the course, students will analyze phenomena such as digitalization, flexible work, the platform economy, and precarity; evaluate the dissolution of classical employment relations and the effects of new working arrangements on labor markets; and assess the trade union and policy responses developed in reaction to these transformations.

This course examines the changing forms of work in the context of digitalization, globalization, and neoliberal policies. Students will explore new types of employment such as flexible work, platform labor, remote work, precarity, and algorithmic management; and analyze their effects on trade unions, collective bargaining mechanisms, and labor law. Furthermore, new employment forms will be critically evaluated from the perspectives of gender, youth labor, and social protection, with comparative case studies from Turkey and around the world.