Direct sellers and door-to-door salespersons are frequently classified as independent contractors – and that classification is increasingly under attack, both by class action lawyers and the U.S.

When discussing the future of work, we've been asking the wrong question. It's not "What jobs will exist?" but "Who will create them?" Across Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, a ...

A 1979 definition of direct selling describes it as “face-to-face selling away from a fixed retail location” [1]. Direct selling was simply getting the goods directly to the customer, replacing the ...

Women have long played a central role in direct selling. What was once viewed as a flexible supplement to household income is now, for many women worldwide, a primary path to business ownership and ...