Abstract:

The First Industrial Revolution replaced manufacture production with the factory system and created radical transformations in production systems. Depending on these transformations, the master-journeyman-apprentice structuring has gradually left its place to institutive vocational and technical education-VTE systems. Fordist system, which is based on the Taylorist methods, formed the basic dynamics of the Second Industrial Revolution. The Second Industrial Revolution started to transform VTE systems into multi-level and diverse structures. In the 1970s, due to crisis of the Fordist system, "flexible production systems" have come to the fore with the contribution of technological developments. This process led to the emergence of the Third Industrial Revolution. Flexible production systems have increased the demand for higher quality and flexible labor. In this study, First and Second Industrial Revolutions have been discussed in general terms and the internal dynamics and the effects on the VTE systems of the Third Industrial Revolution have been put forth.

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