This study deals with the historical development of labor law from a normative perspective in Turkey. Starting from the last period of the Ottoman Empire, the evolution of Turkish labor law was examined over the Republican Period, 1961 and 1982 Constitutions, the 2003 Labor Law and the European Union harmonization process. In this article, which was prepared based on the thesis study, the basic legal regulations that entered into force in the field of labor law were analyzed; The historical transformation of individual and collective labor relations has been evaluated on the axis of job security, trade union rights and occupational health safety concepts. At the same time, the inadequacies of laws at the application level and the problem of working law on paper are also discussed. In this context, the study provides a comprehensive assessment by taking into account the changes in the social state principle and labor-capital relations as well as the historical process of labor law in Turkey.