Rural household and employment, new trends and necessary measures for the formation of a balanced relationship: the case of a Greek province (Messini-Peloponnese).

The rural household presents a special particularity concerning its employment: its members work together for many hours a day, for the survival of the whole family. They participate, more or less, in all decisions concerning the progress of the family holding and the materialization of the necessary procedures, and the attained results are distributed (Djurfeldt, 1996). This way, the rural household reinforces the family institution as well as the inter-dependence of its members (Evans and Ilbery, 1996). Through the examination of this bipolar issue, this paper aims at the presentation of the rural household and its employment as well as the new trends involved in this issue. It also tries to propose measures through which the rural household and its employment will ensure a balanced interaction, focusing its interest on a geographical region (rural nature), the Messini (Peloponnese) ABSTRACf