| Politically, they have roots that go back to the nineteenth century of American pastoralism and trustbusting, and of European social democracy and state regulation. |
| Much of the way Mr. Klein is trying to transform the system is rooted in his longtime career as an assistant United States attorney general and antitrust lawyer — he is still trustbusting. |
| Politicians such as the trustbusting presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft crusaded against such corporate power. Since then that anti-corporate mood has never quite dissipated. |
| Roosevelt's trustbusting weakened America's robber barons, and other legal changes protected workers' rights to organise and, especially in Europe, to conclude binding national pay agreements. |
