throughout the working lives of man and woman change of employers was frequent as they sought better or more options of returning home for wage-earning men and women remainted ever-present as a coping mechanism in times of stress of difficulty but in reality rural villages could not support their populations it has been suggested that this persistent cultural characteristics hane ensured that thailand's industrial workforce have never been completely proletarianised in terms of consciousness or attitudes to industrial work experience onthe other hand engagement with urban life has become so common as to be an accepted part of