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)

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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)

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

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

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

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

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Wikipedia 8
The two articles I will be digging into and helping peers with edits are User:CassieAgirl and User:JamesMin89

Wiki 9 - Feedback/Contributions
Hi Jamesmin89, I am in the 11:50 Intercultural Communication class and will be peer reviewing your article. If you need anything from me at all, please contact me on my talk page. I think you're on the right track with information to add on the subject, just be careful not to create an audience of a professor. Some of your additions are seeming very scholarly but WP is supposed to be concise and descriptive over being written like the average paper. I would say go through some of your statements and see where you could make some of your points more brief. Other than that, I think your contributions are working well within the topic. Conflict Management Style Laurenleaf (talk) 06:39, 24 April 2013 (UTC)Laurenleaf

Hi, CassieAgirl I am also in your class for Intercultural Communication. This theory is a great topic with some real room to expand on. If you need any help I would consider searching articles on Social Penetration Theory and how it is related to topics we've discussed in class such as identity, etc. If you need any feedback at all once your article is a little more expanded. Feel free to reach out to me on my talk page! User:Laurenleaf (talk) Laurenleaf (talk) 06:31, 24 April 2013 (UTC)laurenleaf Social Penetration Theory