In March 2025, Oxfam published the second briefing in its Briefings for Business on Valuing Women’s Work series, which addressed how modern business practices, such as purchasing practices, stem from colonial legacies, and continue to exacerbate and lead to poor working conditions.

Through case studies from women migrant workers in the UK garment supply chain and women workers in the Kenyan tea supply chain, the report highlights that unfair purchasing practices perpetuate gender inequality, as the pursuit for profits and growth impacts women workers at the bottom of the supply chain, who are more vulnerable to informal and precarious work. The report also underscores the importance of fair corporate tax contributions to support public services, infrastructure and social protection for women workers.

The report's recommendations for companies to change the way they do business, includes:

1. Recognize colonial legacies and the transformative role that businesses can play in bringing about decent work for women workers in their value chains;
2. Commit and take action on corporate human rights and tax abuses;
3. Review and change unfair business purchasing practices;
4. Remedy women survivors of SGBV and workers; and
5. Advocate for transformative approaches to gender equality and decent work in businesses and value chains

Using the case studies from women migrant workers in the UK garment sector, Labour Behind the Label and Oxfam collaborated on the report "From Exploited to Unemployed: The women in Leicester left behind by fast fashion outsourcing". The report details the feminised impact of precarious work on their lives, particularly in relation to recent order reductions in factories as brands shift orders away from the city, and the intersectional vulnerabilities to exploitation experienced by workers due to the precarious nature of their employment and status.