Consumer Boycotts

Name: Consumer Boycotts
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Effecting Change Through the Marketplace and Media

By: Monroe Friedman

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Paperback | 11 August 1999 | Edition Number 1

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304 Pages

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Despite the increasing occurrence of consumer boycotts, little has been written about this form of social and economic protest. This timely volume fills the knowledge gap by examining boycotts both historically and currently. Drawing on both published and unpublished material as well as personal interviews with boycott groups and their targets, Monroe Friedman discusses different types of boycotts-from their historical focus on labor and economic concerns to the more recent inclusion of issues such as minority rights, animal welfare, and environmental protection. He also documents the shift in strategic emphasis from the marketplace (cutting consumer sales) to the media (securing news coverage to air criticism of a targeted firm). In turn, these changes in boycott substance and style offer insights into larger upheavals in the social and economic fabric of 20th century America.

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"A must-read for students of the consumer and public advocacy movements and for action-oriented consumer and public interest advocates." -Mary Gardiner Jones, President, Consumer Interest Research Institute and author of "Electronic House Calls: 21st Century Options "Chronicles an important but neglected area of consumer protest activity...The most authoritative treatment of consumer boycotts by its leading expert. "Consumer Boycotts should be of great interest to activists and their institutional adversaries, as well as to researchers." -Stephen Brobeck, Executive Director, Consumer Federation of America "This volume is a meticulous and engaging social history of the boycott, as well as a nuanced exploration of its microdynamics. Produced by a noted scholar and consumer activist, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand, launch, or resolve a boycott." -John F. Sherry, Jr., Professor of Marketing, Kellogg Graduate Schoolof Management, Northwestern University "At the very top of books I have read in its level of clarity...has that rare combination of being informative and entertaining. The last time I read a piece of nonfiction this well-written, I was reading a Pulitzer Prize winner...I recommend [it] most enthusiastically." -Richard Heslin, Associate Professor of Social Psychology, Purdue University "Students of social and consumer movements and social change will find this an indispensable resource.." -Choice, C.M. Hand, Valdosta State University

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