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Spanish obraje sweatshops exploited indigenous weavers
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Fast fashion has a horrifying colonial ancestry. In the Andes, Spanish colonizers hijacked the traditional Inca labor tax to fuel their textile empire. They forced indigenous men, women, and children into 'obrajes'—brutal, locked sweatshops where they were chained to looms and forced to weave coarse wool into commercial cloth under the constant threat of aggressive corporal punishment.
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