My presentation will not be in the form of an academic analysis of the state of relations between academia and the labour movement. Instead, please consider this as a plea for help on behalf of labour addressed to the university community. I deplore the fact that there has been little, if any, real interest by aca demics to provide counsel and research that is relevant and useful to the labour movement. I often hear from students who apply for employment with me of their interest in labour. Similarly, I also hear from left academics of their Labour interest. In spite of this, there is very little real connection between labour and the universities. This is not to say that there is not any research in labour relations in Cana da. There is not a lot, but there is some. For example, before it was axed by federal government cuts Labour Canada biannually published a book list ing hundreds of current research projects in industrial relations. The publi cation Relations Industrielles of the University of Laval regularly publishes articles on I.R. research. The annual conference of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association is a forum for presentation of papers on I.R. research. In addition, a number of university industrial relations departments, such as Laval, Montreal, Queen's, etc. hold annual conferences or publish annu al reviews. Speaking as a non-Quebecois working in the labour movement, I think it is ironic that:
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Levine et al. (1988) studied this question.