Both strike and boycott describe collective action by a large number of relatively less powerful people, refusing to interact in one fashion or another with a smaller number of relatively more powerful individuals or companies.
Boycotters refuse to buy
Strikers refuse to work
They both refuse to take part in the business relationship
Cesar Chavez led the United Farm Workers in a strike, boycott, and secondary boycott against grape growers. This was known as the Delano Grape Strike.
refusal to buy or sell certain products or services. In other words...To go against something.
BOYCOTT. K.Harris
A boycott occurs when customers refuse to patronize a business, buy their product or use their service for whatever reason. A strike is when a business's employees refuse to work, usually over a contractual dispute.
the workers' conditions were met.
to decline it
The word "Boycott" originates from the Irish Land-Wars when a man by the name of Charles Boycott was ostracize/Ignored by the greater community and his tenants.
The word boycott is the closet word to your question. If you boycott someone you refuse to do business with them.
We will go boycott that bus company tomorrow at 10a.m.
The word boycott derives from the surname of an English Army officer, Boycott, who was shunned by the Irish because of his activities. That type of shunning can to be described by his name.
Boycott: To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion. Originated when these tactics were used by Irish peasant farmers against their landlord, Charles Boycott, in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland.
Strike or Boycott