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This research paper analyzes the role that multinational oil companies played in the formation of social concepts and citizen participation which were promoted in the oil camps of Venezuela and which served as an important model for varios sectors of Venezuelan society. The experience in oil camps reconfigured regional identities and introduced a new lifestyle, reformulating the use of public and private space, the management of time, and also comsumption patterns. Conscious of the dislocation that employment In the new and unfamiliar oil industry implied, companies sought to incorporate the family into this process and redefined the role of women as key to the socialization process. This paper analyzes the participation of intellectual goups, and the middle class which colaborated with the oil companies in order to promote a national cultural project and civil society which would promote certain legitimacy in relation to the transnational companies in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, reasons of postponing motherhood by professional young women are explored and related with changes of course in their biographies, especially with those sociologically associated with individualization, by means a qualitative research on this demographic group in Caracas (Venezuela) and Santiago (Chile). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper studies the venezuelan labor rights in regards to breastfeeding. It stems from the reform of the Reglamento de la Ley Orgánica del Trabajo published in Official Newspaper No 38426 of the twenty-eight (28) of April of 2006, that not only modified the duration of the period, but resulted in the faculty conferred to the Ministries of the Work and Social Security and the Ministry of Health in that through a joint resolution they could decide their extension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]