Editing Berry (section)

=== Economics ===
{{Globalize section|the Western world|date=March 2025}}
[[File:Frozen_berries_2.jpg|thumb|right|Mixed frozen berries]]
In certain regions, berrypicking can be a large part of the economy, and it is becoming increasingly common for [[western European]] countries such as Sweden and Finland to [[migrant labor|import cheap labor]] from Thailand or Bulgaria to do berry picking.{{zwj}}<ref name="Economist">{{Cite news|title = Berrypickers, unite!|url = http://www.economist.com/node/21559956|newspaper = [[The Economist]] |access-date = 12 August 2015|issn = 0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title = Record number of Thai berry pickers to arrive in Finland |url = http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/13418-record-number-of-thai-berry-pickers-to-arrive-in-finland.html|newspaper = [[Helsinki Times]] |access-date = 12 August 2015|first = Aleksi|last = Teivainen|date = 23 June 2015 |language= en }}</ref> This practice has come under scrutiny in the past years because of the low wages and poor living standard for the "berry-pickers", as well as the lack of worker safety.{{zwj}}<ref name="Economist" />

In the late 2010s in the US, reduced migration from Mexico and Central America and increased [[Minimum wage in the United States|minimum wage]] standards have made finding "stoop-work" labourers to pick the strawberry crop difficult and costly.{{zwj}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Goodyear |first1=Dana |title=How Driscoll's Reinvented the Strawberry |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=August 14, 2017 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/how-driscolls-reinvented-the-strawberry/amp |access-date=13 December 2020 |quote=With a sharp decline in migration from Mexico and Central America, the primary sources of agricultural labor for half a century, "stoop work"—jobs requiring harvesters to crouch doubled over for hours a day—has become difficult to hire for. Nearly every farm I passed in Watsonville, in May and June, had a sign by the road saying ''Se Solicitan Piscadores''. At the same time, changing minimum-wage and overtime laws have made labor more expensive.}}</ref>