ABSTRACT

The objective of this study is to focus on the correlation between industrial relations as a scientific discipline, which includes tripartite relationships like employee, employer, and state, and which was developed in parallel to the parameters in labor life ‘wage’ at first and ‘unionism’, ‘collective bargaining’, ‘collective labor contract’, ‘strike’, and ‘lock out’. As a scientific field, industrial relations improved in the aftermath of industrialization in particular and gained a momentum through ‘working class’ that converted into a massive scale. That’s why, industrial relations, on the basis of which employee or in other words labor and their problems are available, appeared as a natural result of focusing on workers’ problems in work place and taking initiatives to solve those sorts of problems. At the end of 18thcentury and commencement of 19th century on which industrialization came to fore in England particularly and in the West generally, sustainable development and growth was based in line with industrialization; new economic model also arose that depended upon capital accumulation, competition, private property, and free market economy. However, industrialization brought about class problems and it ignited new discussions that have lasted for two hundred and fifty years which resulted from the fact that the relevancy between employee and employer turned into the advantage of employer or as Marx stated its evolution from the advantage of “prosperous minority”; to the disadvantage of “poor majority”. That’s why, the competition between employee and employer went far beyond its rhetoric; and it reached its dimension to affect literary works fundamentally and film industry as well. In the study, through discourse analysis and semiotics method, four movies were analyzed such as “Those Waking up Early in the Morning”, 1965 , “Cost”, 1974 , “Sunny Marsh”, 1977 , and “Railway”, 1980 , all of which were among the cognoscenti of Turkish cinema. In the analysis of these named films, the parameters such as ‘unionism’, ‘collective bargaining’, ‘collective labor contract’, ‘strike’, and ‘lock out’, all of which are the basic components of industrial relations, were used