QUT Centre for Justice member, Professor Deanna Grant-Smith, appeared in a number of media reports this week discussing how social media has become the new ‘front door’ for many multi-level marketing schemes with people using the platform to sell products, but also to recruit friends for financial gain.<\/p>\n
“The business model, which is legal in Australia, typically lures people in by promising them that if they purchase a large amount of product at a near wholesale price, they\u2019ll make a return on their initial investment once they\u2019ve sold more products and in some cases recruited their friends to do the same. But most rarely turn a profit, said Professor Deanna Grant-Smith, from the Queensland University of Technology School of Management.”<\/em><\/p>\n Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n This story appeared in Daily Telegraph, The Australian and Hobart Mercury.<\/p>\n Professor Grant-Smith has worked extensively in enriching public understanding and awareness of exploitative work practices and constraints to equitable access to education and employment across\u00a0<\/span>a wide range of issues with a social justice dimension including issues including unpaid work, multi-level marketing, transport disadvantage, employment fraud, employability, and the widening participation agenda.<\/p>\n Professor Grant-Smith has written a QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Paper<\/a> on this topic.<\/p>\n