
Men looking for daily gigs in Kunshan, the heart of China’s manufacturing industry. As the country pivots toward automation, lower-skilled workers are finding fewer steady opportunities.


Choi Seung-ho, right, head of the Samsung Electronics Labor Union, celebrated with a Samsung executive after signing a tentative agreement earlier this month in Suwon, a city south of Seoul.

Outside the Samsung Electronics semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Thursday.