Chai Sung-lin points out that in the era following World War Ⅱ, Taiwan was still an agrarian society. The total number of industrial workers was less than 100,000. Almost all the people that found work in factories were the sons or daughters of farmers.
柴松林指出，光復初期全民皆農，勞工總數還不到十萬人，工廠招人，幾乎都是農家子弟。