<span>Boycotts involve engaging in refusal to buy goods or services of a company and attempting to encourage the third parties to refuse to do business with them as a sign of protest. A boycott was used most by labor organizations because of bad labor practice and poor environmental record.<span>
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In Roman society, the aristocrats were known as patricians. The highest positions in the government were held by two consuls, or leaders, who ruled the Roman Republic. A senate composed of patricians elected these consuls. At this time, lower-class citizens, or plebeians, had virtually no say in the government.
One of the main things that the model T Ford tells us about life and events between the two world wars in the US was that people were becoming more "consumer based"--meaning that "regular" people were able to buy things like cars due to industrialization and streamlined production.