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Should we boycott boycotts?

Journal of Social Philosophy 27 (3):136-148 (1996)

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Should We #deleteUber?Garrett Pendergraft - 2021 - SAGE Business Cases.details Since Uber’s founding in 2009, individuals associated with Uber have engaged in (or been accused of engaging in) numerous categories of corporate malfeasance: failure to protect data privacy, theft of trade secrets, sexual misconduct (including sexual assault and sexual harassment), lack of worker safety, lack of consumer safety, and racial discrimination. Thus, Uber is a good test case for the question of whether corporate behavior can provide moral justification for a boycott. More specifically, an examination of the 2017 #deleteUber controversy (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
The Business of Boycotting: Having Your Chicken and Eating It Too.Alan Tomhave & Mark Vopat - 2018 - Journal of Business Ethics 152 (1):123-132.details We assume that there are certain causes that are morally wrong, worth speaking out against, and working to overcome, e.g., opposition to same sex marriage. This seems to suggest that we should also be boycotting certain businesses; particularly those whose owners advocate such views. Ideally, for the boycotter, this will end up silencing certain views, but this seems to cause two basic problems. First, it appears initially to be coercive, because it threatens the existence of the business. Second, it runs (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 8 citations
Boycotts and the social enforcement of justice.Linda Radzik - 2017 - Social Philosophy and Policy 34 (1):102-122.details This essay examines the ethics of boycotting as a social response to injustice or wrongdoing. The boycotts in question are collective actions in which private citizens withdraw from or avoid consumer or cultural interaction with parties perceived to be responsible for some transgression. Whether a particular boycott is justified depends, not only on the reasonableness of the underlying moral critique, but also on what the boycotters are doing in boycotting. The essay considers four possible interpretations of the kind of act (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
Boycotting and Public Mourning.Bob Fischer - 2019 - Res Publica 26 (1):89-102.details Some people feel that they should boycott Israel or their local anti-LGBTQ bakery, despite it being difficult to establish these obligations based on standard consequentialist or deontic considerations. I develop a framework on which such self-reports are accurate: I propose that we see some boycotting as akin to a public mourning practice, such as the Jewish tradition of sitting shiva. Mourning practices are complex and socially recognized ways of honoring the dead, as well as expressing and directing the range of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Sweatshop Boycotts: Can’t Live with Them, Can’t Live without Them.Linan Peng & Benjamin Powell - forthcoming - Business Ethics Quarterly:1-29.details This article explores the moral permissibility of sweatshop boycotts. We build explicitly on Tomhave and Vopat’s (2018) framework for evaluating the moral permissibility of boycotts in general for the specific case of sweatshop labor. We argue that sweatshop boycotts are more likely to be morally justified when targeting forced labor compared to free labor and we explore the relevant moral tradeoffs associated with boycotts of free labor sweatshops. We analyze the morality of three cases of sweatshop boycotts—Indonesia in the 1990s, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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