boycott

Examples of boycott in the following topics:

• Boycotts

  • Union boycotts are a form of industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise.
  • Because farm laborers in the United States are not covered by the Wagner Act, the United Farm Workers' (UFW) union has been able to legally use secondary boycotting of grocery store chains as an aid to their strikes against California agribusinesses and to their primary boycotts of California grapes, lettuce, and wine.
  • The UFW's secondary boycotts involved asking consumers to stop shopping at a grocery store chain until such time as the chain stopped carrying the boycotted grapes, lettuce, or wine.
  • Union boycotts, or secondary action, is industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise .
  • The UFW's secondary boycotts involved asking consumers to stop shopping at a grocery store chain until such time as the chain stopped carrying the boycotted grapes, lettuce, or wine.

• Montgomery and Protests

  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
  • The decision to choose Parks and not Colvin as the symbol of the boycott was political.
  • French to name the association to lead the boycott (they selected the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to the city, and select King (Nixon's choice) to lead the boycott.
  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott resounded far beyond the desegregation of public buses.
  • Describe the roles of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other protesters in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• Economic Retaliation and Reaction to the Townshend Acts

  • Merchants in the colonies, some of them also smugglers, organized economic boycotts to put pressure on their British counterparts to work for repeal of the Townshend Acts.
  • Merchants in other colonial ports, including New York City and Philadelphia, eventually joined the boycott.
  • The members met at Raleigh Tavern and adopted a boycott agreement known as the "Association. "
  • British exports to the colonies declined by 38 percent in 1769, but there were many merchants who did not participate in the boycott.The boycott movement began to fail by 1770, and came to an end in 1771.

• Women in the Revolution

  • Similar boycotts extended to a variety of British goods with women opting to purchase or make "American" goods instead.
  • Even though these "non-consumption boycotts" depended on national policy (formulated by men), it was women who enacted them in households.
  • In addition to boycotts of British goods, Patriot women participated in the "Homespun Movement."
  • The Edenton Tea Party was a women-led boycott of British products.
  • Because women ran the household, their purchasing power was vital; boycotts such as this supported the war effort.

• The Spreading Conflict

  • The result of the Congress was the Continental Association, which was a system for implementing a trade boycott with Great Britain.
  • The Continental Association was a system created by the First Continental Congress in 1774 for implementing a trade boycott with Great Britain.
  • As they had done during the 1760s (most effectively during the Stamp Act crisis of 1765), colonists turned to economic boycotts to protest what they saw as unconstitutional legislation.
  • The word "boycott" had not yet been coined; colonists referred to their economic protests as, depending upon the specific activity, "non-importation", "non-exportation", or "non-consumption".
  • In May 1774, the Boston Town Meeting, with Samuel Adams acting as moderator, passed a resolution that called for an economic boycott in response to the Boston Port Act, which was one of the Coercive Acts.

• Revolutionary Women

  • In addition to the boycotts of British textiles, the Homespun Movement served the Continental Army by producing needed clothing and blankets.
  • Women used their purchasing power for additional boycotts.
  • Fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina signed an agreement officially agreeing to boycott tea and other English products and sent it to British newspapers.
  • Women extended similar boycotts to a variety of British goods, instead opting in favor of purchasing or making "American" goods.
  • Even though these "non-consumption boycotts" depended on a national policy formulated by men, it was women who enacted them in the household spheres.

• The Pullman Strike

  • Debs, which supported their strike by launching a boycott—union members refused to run trains containing Pullman cars.
  • The ARU declared that if switchmen were disciplined for the boycott, the entire ARU would strike in sympathy.
  • The boycott was launched on June 26, 1894.

• Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty

  • The Daughters of Liberty were a Colonial American group, established around 1769, consisting of women who displayed their loyalty by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passing of the Townshend Acts.
  • In 1774, the Patriot women helped influence a decision made by the Continental Congress to boycott all British goods.
  • The Daughters of Liberty helped influence a decision made by the Continental Congress to boycott all British goods.

• British Taxes and Colonial Grievances

  • Merchants threatened to boycott British products.
  • Again, colonial merchants threatened to boycott taxed products.
  • Boycotts reduced the profits of British merchants, who, in turn, petitioned Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts.

• The First Continental Congress

  • When Congress decided to boycott British products, the colonial and local Committees took charge by examining merchant records and publishing the names of merchants who attempted to defy the boycott.