User talk:Laurenleaf

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To answer your question: I started out making small edits to fix grammar and typos or add bits of information on various pages. You can see my earliest edits at the bottom of this page, if you're interested. Cheers! Nikkimaria (talk) 22:41, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Topic

Please move your topic information from your User page to your Talk page. Interesting topic! What do you anticipate adding to sweatshops that relates to intercultural communication? Ajungle (talk) 07:33, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Initial Thoughts on Topic

For my starter article on Wikipedia, I have chosen to take a deeper look into Sweatshops. This topic has become concerning to my understanding of Intercultural Communication within the fast-advancing Fashion Industry. This Wikipedia page does not include much information on Sweatshop's relationship to communication. Communication within the Sweatshop environment significantly relates to both anti-sweatshop movements and pro-sweatshop arguments within the current article. The sources I have looked into deepen information on both of these topic areas and provide deeper insight for the Wikipedia page on Sweatshops. The current article lacks much information coming from an Intercultural communication perspective that I hope to research to start editing my first article.

Laurenleaf (talk) 04:45, 8 April 2013 (UTC)laurenleaf[reply]

Exploring The Topic

Exploring changes and additions to the Sweatshop topic:

Sweatshops conditions resemble prison labor in many cases, especially from a common found Western perspective. Sweatshops in question carry characteristics such as compulsory pregnancy tests for female laborers and terrorization from supervisors into submission. [3] Workers then go into a state of forced labor, if even one day of work is not accounted for, most are immediately fired.[4] These working conditions have been the source of suicidal unrest within factories in the past. Chinese sweatshops known to have increased numbers of suicidal employees have suicide nets covering the whole site, in place to stop over-worked and stressed employees leaping to their deaths.[5] The Foxconn Suicides correlate sweatshop environments to prison labor. Workers feel so over-worked and stressed that there employers place these nets on site to deter their employees from jumping out the windows of the building. The conceptual foundations of the world economy is the next point the article goes on to make. This point then needed some clarity relating to latter points in the article dealing with arguments for sweatshop labor. It opens the other side of the debate as the perspective of the world economy is pertinent to the subject of the current Global Sweatshop condition. Outsourced work can at times bring some form of wealth to impoverished countries where people struggle to provide for their families, regardless of Western labor concerns, low wages are preferred to none at all in these areas. [6]

Going to try to look for more gaps of information in this article to connect them especially to points that represent the conditions of most sweatshop laborers. Sweatshops simply would not run without the laborers from what I have begun to research. Management and the force behind the sweatshop industry is only one part of the business that is to be analyzed. Laborers are simply the most important concern throughout Sweatshop literature. Need to expand on sources to make of for the lack of citations in the current article. Especially, sources relating the topic of intercultural communication within the global sweatshop.

Any recommendations on interc. comm. analyses databases would be extremely helpful as I continue to explore and add to this Wikipedia entry!

Laurenleaf (talk) 04:50, 8 April 2013 (UTC)laurenleaf[reply]

Sources From Previous Edit

Marsden, Rhodri. “Leading Article: The Gruesome Reality of Sweatshops.” Independent.co.uk. Retrieved April 2, 2013.

Cooper, Rob. “Inside Apple’s Chinese Sweatshop Factory Workers Are Paid Just £1.12 Per Hour to Produce iPads and iPhones For the West.” Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved April 2, 2013.

Jones, Daniel and Lee Sorrell. “Sweatshop Horror Exposed.” Thesun.co.uk. Retrieved April 2, 2013.

Alimurung, Gendy. “Sweatshops Are Fashion’s Dirty Little Secret. But They Don’t Exist in L.A. – Do They?” Laweekly.com. Retrieved April 2, 2013.

Velasquez, James. “Minimum Wage Debate: How Sweatshops Are Actually Good for the Poor.” Policymic.com. Retrieved April 2, 2013.

Links can be found within the References of Sweatshop article #2-6.

Laurenleaf (talk) 04:59, 8 April 2013 (UTC)laurenleaf[reply]

Question About Relating Topic

Ajungle (talk) I was curious if you could add any insight into my research on how sweatshops can relate more to the topic of intercultural communication. I am going to look through our texts and see what information I can find and continue to look through online databases to expand my knowledge. Laurenleaf (talk) 05:04, 8 April 2013 (UTC)laurenleaf[reply]

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