Essays about: "berry picking"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words berry picking.

  1. 1. Along the paths of berry pickers : ascertaining the roles and positions of seasonal migrant berry pickers in Sweden through Swedish media

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Anudini Wijayarathna; [2022]
    Keywords : Swedish wild-berry industry; seasonal migrant berry pickers; Thai berry pickers; free tourist pickers; roles; socio-economic positions; labour conditions;

    Abstract : Sweden is one of the northern European countries that receive seasonal migrant labour annually from Thai and free/tourist pickers for wild-berry picking in rural northern forests and lands of Sweden. Both Thai and free/tourist pickers are subjected to different irregularities and unfair labour conditions within the Swedish wild-berries industry. READ MORE

  3. 2. On-site Information Findability: Towards an integrative view

    University essay from Jönköping University/IHH, Informatik

    Author : Zdenek Srejber; Rients Wiebren Johannes van Blanken; [2020]
    Keywords : Findability; Information Architecture; and Social Informatics;

    Abstract : A major component of the internet are websites which each have their information architecture, but more importantly, findability. This thesis focusses on the topic of findability, which is defined by Morville as “The quality of being locatable or navigable” (Morville, 2005, p. 4). READ MORE

  4. 3. (Un)forbidden fruits : The influence of culture, nature and place on fruit and berry picking in Skarpnäck

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Jonna Lidmark; [2019]
    Keywords : Urban foraging; fruit; berries; picking; food trees; norms; cultural ecology; Skarpnäck;

    Abstract : Standardised systems of food production where food is brought into cities from far away is accompanied with high emissions from both production and transport. Simultaneously, food growing in the urban surroundings is not picked and left to rot. READ MORE

  5. 4. Thai local brokers in the Swedish berry industry : Roles and positions across time and space

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografi

    Author : Peter van Eerbeek; [2019]
    Keywords : migration; labour; broker; precarity; intermediaries; berry; industry; Thailand; Sweden; precarity; mobility; seasonal work; debt;

    Abstract : Over the last decade, each year 2500 - 6000 Thai go to Sweden to work as berry pickers during the berry season via a regulated system of temporary work permits. Bangkok-based staffing agencies rely on the networks of local brokers to recruit workers in Thailand’s more peripheral northeastern Isan region, as part of the larger migration industry in Thailand. READ MORE

  6. 5. Möjligheter att med bär- och svampplockning skapa arbete för lågutbildade på Sveriges landsbygd

    University essay from SLU/School for Forest Management

    Author : Jonathan Andersson; [2018]
    Keywords : agroforestry; bidragstagare; företagskallkyl;

    Abstract : dominated by people from other countries. One of these lines of work is the picking of wild berries and mushrooms. The picking of wild berries and mushrooms generates billions of SEK each year, yet the companies working with this still opts to employ mainly people coming from Thailand. READ MORE