Boycotts Past and Present - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boycotts Past and Present write by David Feldman. This book was released on 2018-12-29. Boycotts Past and Present available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book historians and social scientists examine boycotts from the eighteenth century to the present day. Employed in struggles against British rule in the American colonies, against racial discrimination in the United States during the Civil Rights movement, and Apartheid in South Africa, today it is Israel that is the focus of a campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Boycotts have featured in campaigns undertaken by labour, consumer and nationalist movements. Jews were the focus of some boycotts instigated by nationalist movements in Central and Eastern Europe and Jewish businesses were targeted by the National Socialist regime in Germany. In this collection, contributors explore the history of past boycott movements and examine the different narratives put forward by proponents and opponents of the current BDS movement directed against Israel: one which places the movement within a history of struggles for ‘human rights’; the other which regards BDS as the latest manifestation of an antisemitic tradition.
Boycott!
Boycott! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boycott! write by Sunaina Maira. This book was released on 2017-10-13. Boycott! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of this movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an American Studies issue? In this short essential book, Sunaina Maira addresses these key questions. Boycott! situates the academic boycott in the broader history of boycotts in the United States as well as in Palestine and shows how it has evolved into a transnational social movement that has spurred profound intellectual and political shifts. It explores the movement’s implications for antiracist, feminist, queer, and academic labor organizing and examines the boycott in the context of debates about Palestine, Zionism, race, rights-based politics, academic freedom, decolonization, and neoliberal capitalism.
The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel
The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel write by Cary Nelson. This book was released on 2015. The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first collection to take critical look at the international movement to boycott Israel.
Consumer Boycotts
Consumer Boycotts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consumer Boycotts write by Monroe Friedman. This book was released on 2002-05-03. Consumer Boycotts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Beyond the Boycott
Beyond the Boycott - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Boycott write by Gay W. Seidman. This book was released on 2007-09-13. Beyond the Boycott available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the world economy becomes increasingly integrated, companies can shift production to wherever wages are lowest and unions weakest. How can workers defend their rights in an era of mobile capital? With national governments forced to compete for foreign investment by rolling back legal protections for workers, fair trade advocates are enlisting consumers to put market pressure on companies to treat their workers fairly. In Beyond the Boycott, sociologist Gay Seidman asks whether this non-governmental approach can reverse the "race to the bottom" in global labor standards. Beyond the Boycott examines three campaigns in which activists successfully used the threat of a consumer boycott to pressure companies to accept voluntary codes of conduct and independent monitoring of work sites. The voluntary Sullivan Code required American corporations operating in apartheid-era South Africa to improve treatment of their workers; in India, the Rugmark inspection team provides 'social labels' for handknotted carpets made without child labor; and in Guatemala, COVERCO monitors conditions in factories producing clothing under contract for major American brands. Seidman compares these cases to explore the ingredients of successful campaigns, as well as the inherent limitations facing voluntary monitoring schemes. Despite activists' emphasis on educating individual consumers to support ethical companies, Seidman finds that, in practice, they have been most successful when they mobilized institutions—such as universities, churches, and shareholder organizations. Moreover, although activists tend to dismiss states' capabilities, all three cases involved governmental threats of trade sanctions against companies and countries with poor labor records. Finally, Seidman points to an intractable difficulty of independent workplace monitoring: since consumers rarely distinguish between monitoring schemes and labels, companies can hand pick monitoring organizations, selecting those with the lowest standards for working conditions and the least aggressive inspections. Transnational consumer movements can increase the bargaining power of the global workforce, Seidman argues, but they cannot replace national governments or local campaigns to expand the meaning of citizenship. As trade and capital move across borders in growing volume and with greater speed, civil society and human rights movements are also becoming more global. Highly original and thought-provoking, Beyond the Boycott vividly depicts the contemporary movement to humanize globalization—its present and its possible future. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology
