we asked one of the nation's best-known labor economists, university of wisconsin professor jack barbashchange. the adversarial interest was pushed too far at the expense of this narrow community of interests. and what we're seeing now, from a broad analytical standpoint, is some enlargement of that area of common interest, like profit sharing, like worker involvement, like quality of work like employee ownership, illustrating the basic principle of cooperative relationships. a business-as-usual wage increase and price hike could have sunk chrysler. but government loan guarantees, the uaw's agreement to temporary pay-cuts, and chrysler's willingness to give the union unprecedented access to management's top councils kept chrysler going. they had discovered that staying afloat could sometimes force two old antagonists to take the same tack. we asked richard gill what accounts for the trend away from confrontation and toward cooperation. the change is quite dramatic. the central fact is that union membership as a percentage of the american labor force, has been declining for 30 years. the