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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Boycotts"”.
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The Effectiveness of Marketing Policy Boycotts
Protest groups often utilize boycotts in an attempt to force their targets to modify an allegedly improper policy. This dissertation specifically evaluated the effectiveness of boycotts designed to alter organizations' marketing policies. Contrary to previous work, effectiveness was defined as the …
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Coloured education struggles in South Africa : education boycotts in the Western Cape, 1976
This is an empirical study which is inf owned by a broad theoretical perspective. A major part of the work is a historically descriptive investigation of the Coloured education system and related conflict in South Africa. The work's main focus is an analysis of the Coloured participation in an …
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MILITANT MAIDS: DOMESTIC WORKERS’ PARTICIPATION IN BUS BOYCOTTS, VOTER REGISTRATION, AND HEAD START PROGRAMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH
… Rights Movement, specifically in Gulf South bus boycotts in Baton Rouge, Montgomery, and Tallahassee; voter registration efforts in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida; and Head Start work in those same Deep South states. Domestic workers engaged in activism by joining unions, women's …
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Thinking outside the box: Extra-parliamentary strategies and their effects on the development of good governance in new democracies
… consensus that opposition participation in boycotts prevents the development of democracy. This dissertation takes a critical look at this conjecture, evaluating its plausibility in the first dedicated mixed-methods study of parliamentary and electoral boycotts as extra-parliamentary …
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Boycott Toolkit : collaborative research for collective economic action
Many modern social movements advocate boycotts as a mechanism to pursue social change. However, these campaigns are often broad in scope and limited to committed activists as potential adherents. This thesis describes a web-based platform to organize highly targeted boycotts, perform collaborative …
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Protest without repression : protest policing and nonviolent resistance in the US
… benefiting protesters, from the Birmingham bus boycotts to the "Bonus Army" March on Washington, to the Kent State shootings. However, in the United States, and in other western democracies, the probability of violent police repression of protests has varied significantly over time, as a result …
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PUBLIC RESPONSE TO POOR CSR: AN EVENT STUDY LOOKING AT THE EFFECTS OF ANNOUNCEMENTS ON BOTH FIRM PERFORMANCE AND CUSTOMER RESPONSES.
… The three samples examined in the paper are boycotts announcements, recall announcements, and negative social responsibility announcements. The announcements were separated into the three groups to allow me to better analyze the effects of individual announcements and distinguish between …
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“Lost in translation?”: Women’s issues in the struggle for national liberation in South Africa (1910-1985)
… Women, by the force of grassroots movements and boycotts, and through the persistence of informal economic efforts, women contributed monumentally to the struggle for black liberation. Through the examination of primary sources and current historiographic debates, the study also demonstrates both …
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Something Better for Our Children: Black Organizing in the Chicago Public Schools, 1963--1971
… same Civil Rights direct action tactics, such as boycotts, demonstrations, etc., Black organizers demanded Black administrators, Black history, and various school improvements. Their demands created opportunities that were not achieved in the Civil Rights Movement.
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'Free Basic Water' and cost recovery : impact on low-income households in Grabouw
… - that it was a residual culture of the rates' boycotts of the apartheid era - drew fire, with critics arguing that the real issue was about the affordability of services, particular in terms of such a basic service as water provision. This dissertation examines the reasons for non-payment for …
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An Institutional Lens on Firm Responses to Activism
… examined how external pressures (e.g., protests, boycotts) affect the likelihood of firm concessions to social activists. However, extant research has not given due attention to internal organizational factors that motivate responses to activists’ demands. Additionally, the literature does not …
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The “Fatty” Arbuckle Scandal, Will Hays, and Negotiated Morality in 1920s America
… motion picture industry through public pressure, boycotts, and censorship legislation. In the face of this threat, the film industry created the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association, with Republican strategist Will Hays as its president. Hays worked to incorporate moral reformers …
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Kimono threads: unraveling ontologies, epistemologies, and ethics
… Repeated protests, social media engagement, and boycotts have underscored the exigent nature of these divisive questions, particularly for those interested in fashion, aesthetics, and cultural exchange. This thesis presents an extended reflection on these themes in the form of three essays. In …
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"Millions of Luxurious Citizens": Consumption and Citizenship in the Urban Northeast, 1800-1865
… that rested on the strength of imperial boycotts and instead converted their consumption of luxury goods and products into a civic act. This dissertation reveals how these citizens challenged the limitations that a republican vision of political economy placed on consumers in the early …
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"The Coming Man From Canton": Chinese Experience in Montana (1862-1943)
… this period. Federal Exclusion laws, statewide boycotts, and pervasive racism deeply affected the Chinese experience in Montana, and led to the state’s abandonment by the bulk of this immigrant population in the early 20th century. In overseas communities, the Chinese immigrants relied on …
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"The Coming Man From Canton": Chinese Experience in Montana (1862-1943)
… this period. Federal Exclusion laws, statewide boycotts, and pervasive racism deeply affected the Chinese experience in Montana, and led to the state’s abandonment by the bulk of this immigrant population in the early 20th century. In overseas communities, the Chinese immigrants relied on …
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No more hats thrown into the Olympic rings: an analysis of the Olympic bidding process
… such as political protests, terrorist acts, and boycotts contribute to a decline in the number of candidate cities from 1968 to 1984, modern disinterest in hosting the Olympics is motivated by endogenous dynamics derived from the bidding process. To determine how the bidding process affects the …
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Factors that Influence Social Protests and their Effect on Peace and Stability in Africa
… manifest in public demonstrations, petitions, boycotts, lobbying, and various online activities. Social protests in Africa are influenced by the lack of inclusive political leadership and the existence of uneven political institutions that foster the gap between the haves and have-nots. As a …
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Smashing Solidarity: Two New York Strikes at the Start of the Postwar Wave
… they could think of: sympathy strikes, secondary boycotts, union security, mass picketing, unionization of foremen, and others.</p>
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Reporting Race and Resistance In Dixie: The White Mississippi Press and Civil Rights, 1944-1964
… the darkness, enduring burning crosses and boycotts for their unpopular stands. Mississippi is far too complex for clear-cut villains and heroes, however, as even the most open-minded voices sometimes lapsed into southern defensivism. This is what makes Mississippi so intriguing, as it shows …
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