by Mike Metzger & John Seel
System thinking and its implications…
The refusal of American colonials to buy British goods after the passage of the Stamp Act (1765) could be considered the first boycott. The practice didn’t receive its name until 1880, when English Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott’s ruthlessness in evicting Irish tenants, led his employees to refuse all cooperation with him and his family. Hereafter, refusing cooperation was called a “boycott.”
