Boycotting was originally a name given to an organized system of social and commercial ostracism employed in Ireland in connection with the Land League and the land agitation of 1880 and 1881 and subsequently. Landlords, tenants, or other persons who are subjected to boycotting find it difficult or impossible to get any one to work for them, to sup... Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/JB.HTM