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The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in County Mayo, Ireland. Captain Boycott was the target of social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne ...
"What boycotts don't seem to do is have much of an impact on consumer behavior." Consumers can usually handle a boycott for a day, "but over longer periods of time, most boycotts don't have any ...
Historian Lawrence B. Glickman identifies the free produce movement of the late 1700s as the beginning of consumer activism in the United States. [7] Like members of the British abolitionist movement, free produce activists were consumers themselves, and under the idea that consumers share in the responsibility for the consequences of their purchases, boycotted goods produced with slave labor ...
These radical activists led consumer boycotts, ... Urdu and Persian with the same political connotation as "comrade". ... it was a poetic word, meaning 'fellow'. As ...
The tension brewing between the company and the union can hurt Starbuck's reputation. With the consumer boycotts continuing the Starbucks seeks to find new ways to help sales increase. The store ...
Consumers and even entire countries have voted with their purses by boycotting for change.
The purpose of a boycott is to inflict some economic loss on the target, or to indicate a moral outrage, to try to compel the target to alter an objectionable behavior. Pages in category "Consumer boycotts"
If you are having trouble keeping track of all the consumer boycotts swirling around, you are not alone. A quarter of Americans are boycotting a product or company they had spent money on in the ...