Negative Connotation Behind Sweatshops

My infographic’s purpose was to help remove the negative connotation behind sweatshops. It was intended to not only counter many critical arguments against sweatshops, but to also showcase the numerous benefits factories bring to communities. I went about this by not necessarily painting sweatshops as a beautiful form of humanitarian outreach, but by bringing overlooked information into the foreground.
In the early draft stage, I had a crude design that just threw facts and data on a page with no common theme or argument. Scrapping my original ideas, I took a new approach of refuting commonly used anti-sweatshop statistics. I presented popular data about child labor and low wages as sub headings and then used the remaining space in each block to show how that information was either incorrect or twisted to suit a predetermined stance. This was done through short paragraphs that gave the figures and statistics better context. I also made use of charts and lists to further illustrate my data and argument. The strongest data piece supporting my argument was my compilation of average sweatshop wages compared to average national wages. Seeing the comparison is quite astounding, in many nations …show more content…
After sketching the perfect infographic my actual creation was reduced to little more than text boxes and clip art. However, I overcame this by using generic squares and banners. I was able to mat text boxes with the squares and the banners increased emphasis on my sub headings. Another flaw within piktograph’s programming was the inherent difficulty of citing sources within the infographic. After testing multiple styles and techniques I decided upon entering the entire web address into a textbox directly beneath the source’s corresponding data. I felt it was exceedingly important to insure that anyone viewing the infographic could check my sources as easily as