ABSTRACT

Information and Communication technologies have become the focal point of most of the theories that have analysed economic and social changes after 1980s. At the same time, it has been widely recognized the trade union decline in industrialized world and many attentions have focused on the union renewal. These two phenomena have converged and the adoption of new communication technologies have been accepted essential for union renewal. The aim of this study is to examine the literature which is on the relationship between union renewal and the adoption of trade unions to information and communication Technologies. The main expected outcome of this study is to bring some questions and suggestive arguments to be able to discuss new communication technologies phenomenon and conceptualization of the relationship between trade unions and new communication technologies in a more comprehensive way