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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Copyright informationThe Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press. (Hide copyright information)
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boycott concerted economic or social ostracism of an individual, group, or nation to express disapproval or coerce change. The practice was named (1880) after Capt. Charles Cunningham Boycott, an English land agent in Ireland whose ruthlessness in evicting tenants led his employees to refuse all cooperation with him and his family. In the United States the boycott has been used chiefly in labor disputes; consumer and business groups have also resorted to the method. Boycotts may be either primary or secondary. A typical example of a primary boycott is the refusal of aggrieved employees and their supporters to purchase the goods or services of an employer. A secondary boycott occurs when ...
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Rules for Consumer Boycotts
The Washington Post;
November 22, 1990 ;
700+ words
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October 14, 1994 ;
490 words
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Intheblack;
October 1, 2007 ;
328 words
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Arabs Maintain Boycott of Israel; U.S. Pressure Is Rebuffed Pending...
The Washington Post;
November 6, 1993 ;
700+ words
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boycott
A Dictionary of Economics;
102 words
...boycott A refusal to trade with the person, company, or country boycotted. The name comes from a nineteenth...unpopular with his master's tenants. A boycott may involve refusal to buy goods and...from somebody, or to sell to them. A secondary boycott extends this to anybody who does not join ...
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YOU BRUTE; Lover brands guilty Boycott over assault.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);
November 11, 1998 ;
671 words
...CRICKET legend Geoff Boycott was branded a bully and a brute by his...after a judge ruled he DID beat her up. Boycott - stunned by the verdict after a retrial...their hotel room in the south of France. Boycott said her face injuries were caused by...
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency;
April 19, 1994 ;
616 words
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Sport on TV: Moore is less on Boycott's interview
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October 31, 1998 ;
700+ words
......CHAPPELL tells the quintessential Geoff Boycott story. The English were Down Under, trying...doesn't know the trouble he caused us," says Boycott. Basil D'Oliveira was out in the middle...I worked it out in the second Test," Boycott replied. "But don't tell those buggers...
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Is the Arab boycott crumbling? (Arab boycott against Israel)
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July 2, 1993 ;
700+ words
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FIVE; FIVE BOYCOTT'S PLAYED THE FIELD WITH.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);
October 28, 1996 ;
348 words
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Gay-rights activists call off boycott of Colorado after judge struck down...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
December 22, 1993 ;
700+ words
...DENVER _ In the now quiet headquarters of Boycott Colorado, a phone machine kicks on promptly...after the beep are likely to dwindle. The boycott of Colorado officially ended last week...constitutionality, immediately called off the boycott. Or, rather, suspended it. Warns the voice...
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Unions Use Boycotts to Get Their Message Across.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;
July 22, 2001 ;
700+ words
......broad and philosophical, but that's a reality. The boycott was popularized by Charles Stewart Parnell during...protest high rents and land evictions. The term boycott was coined after Irish tenants effectively ostracized a British estate manager, Charles Cunningham Boycott. None of the common Irish would ...
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Fed: ACCI urges Labor not to touch secondary boycott laws
AAP General News (Australia);
July 28, 2004 ;
365 words
......ACCI urges Labor not to touch secondary boycott laws CANBERRA, July 28 AAP...urged Labor not to water down secondary boycott laws by removing them from...executive Peter Hendy said the secondary boycott provisions served the public...
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CROWDS UP DESPITE PROTESTS 'PEOPLE SICK AND TIRED OF BOYCOTT'.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);
May 27, 2002 ;
633 words
...Byline: Post staff report Boycott? What boycott? Tens of thousands of sun-drenched people ignored calls for an economic boycott of Cincinnati and jammed downtown's ''Taste of Cincinnati'' street festival Sunday. Barbara Toms of Anderson Township...
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Boycott threatened in same-sex debate
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;
April 4, 1996 ;
700+ words
......Christian groups on the mainland are vowing to boycott Hawaii as a tourist destination unless...something amazing happens, there will be a boycott," said Michigan state Rep. Deborah Whyman...that we can do now is have an economic boycott," said the Rev. Lou Sheldon, chairman...
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