COLLECTIVE BARGAINING • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Collective bargaining

... freedom of contract and freedom of opportunity essential to equality in the commerce of life. Now, in the great manufacturing, mining, and transportation industries of the country, instead of the free give and take of individual contract there is substituted a vast system of collective bargaining between great masses of men organized and acting through their representatives, or the individual on the one side accepts what he can get from superior power on the other. In the movement of these mighty forces of organization the individual laborer, the individual ...

— Experiments in Government and the Essentials of the Constitution • Elihu Root