I would say that the broader definition is that a strike is refusing to perform an action for which there is an obligation A boycott is refusing to perform an action seen as voluntary NBA players who don't play games are striking, NBA fans who don't come to games are boycotting
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Like the Montgomery Bus Line actually depended on a large working-class Black population that was their customer base In other circumstances they could've just been like "We're the racist bus company, that's our brand!"
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All the people going "Well then I'LL eat at Chick-Fil-A ALL THE TIME to own the libs"
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The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union organised a boycott of many popular Australian beers after 50+ ppl got sacked. Worked. 2016. Worked well enough organised a boycott against Unilever's icecreams in Aus in 2017 to stop the termination of another contract.
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You'll note that successful boycotts are usually seen as actions linked to strikes and organized by labor unions in the relevant industry, and that's what gives them their power (The Montgomery Bus Boycott is notable because it was organized around a "non-economic" factor, race)
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To pull from my field. This is why green consumption doesn’t really do much. Even when something is accomplished, like with dolphin safe tuna, it’s not really clear if it helped the environment.
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