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English lord who owned the land that pe sant farmers tried to scrape out a living on, or at least enough food to eat. with harvests dropping, charles boycott was ruthless with evictions, and the farmers refused to pay their rents. after that charles boycott's last name became a verb and within a year led to new rent laws in ireland. in the 130 years since, peaceful boycotts have been launched around the world with mixed results, sometimes they succeed, sometimes they don't. but every time boycotts are always called unfair by the people who are getting boycotted.