Knowing Where Your Money Goes

KNOWING WHERE YOUR  $$ GOES

• Boycotting: collective and organized ostracism applied in labor, economic, political, or social relations to protest and punish practices considered unfair. The tactic was popularized by Charles Stewart Parnell to protest high rents and land evictions in Ireland in 1880 by the estate manager Charles C. Boycott (b. 1832—d. 1897). Boycotts are principally used by labor organizations to win improved wages and working conditions or by consumers to pressure companies to change their hiring, labor, environmental, or investment practices.

• Buycotting: the opposite of a “BOYcott”. As oppose to boycott, it is an active campaign to buy the products or services of a particular company or country. A buycott is supported by consumers who make a conscious effort to buy from companies whose environmental and social policies they support.

• Corporate Social Responsibility: is the continuing commitment by business to contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the community and society at large."

RESOURCES and OPPORTUNITIES

BOYCOTTING IN THE NEWS

• www.ibtimes.com/chinese-travel-booking-sites-adopt-malaysian-airlines-boycott-1564538
• www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/nyregion/at-parades-or-not-de-blasio-makes-point.html?_r=0
• www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2014/03/female-chemistry-professors-call-for-boycott-after-congress-does-not-include-women-in-list

BUYCOTTING IN THE NEWS

• www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/barcode-app-tracks-consumers-article-1.1344152
• www.communications4good.com/the-power-of-buycotting/

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE NEWS

• articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-03-31/news/48735569_1_csr-work-csr-projects-new-companies-act
• theargus.co.uk/news/business

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PRINCIPLES
• ic.gc.ca/eic/site/csr-rse.nsf/eng/h_rs00587.html

PBS RESOURCES FOR CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

PBS Frontline - various perspectives on corporate responsibility
• www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/themes/corp.html

PBS independent report - "How Goes Janesville"