"Cheap labour" (1977)

From the August 1977 issue of the Socialist Standard

"It's not only China that seems to be adopting Western practices. According to the Far Eastern Economic Review, a senior American businessman has just been to Hanoi, the first US businessman to visit the city for more than 20 years. He made this visit at the same time as the American House of Representatives was voting against lifting the trade embargo with Vietnam.

The authorities in Hanoi spoke a different language from their anti-capitalist philosophies of a few years ago. They assured the businessman that one of the main attractions of their country was cheap labour."

Guardian, 3rd June 77.