Social pressure by the village (Miss Li-Yi Hsu 許立儀)
Dam construction and water usage by 6th NCC; taking away water used for agriculture
Dependency on Formosa (80-90% of the local economy) to provide basic political and social infrastructure to support community fabric (County Admin office, school, hospital without good reputation, sport’s center, cultural center, small market -- what else?)
No alternative jobs to working in the plant, young people moving away to Taipei or Kaohsiung
No awareness of the “local culture” and subjectivity outside of Formosa (according to local cultural figures)
Everybody works at formosa or has family members there -- difficult to criticize
No independent data, a lot of paid researchers competing for hegemony of research findings (e.g. marine sciences, studies of oysters and clams degradation)
System of contract workers that creates hierarchies between workers