The phrase "act as labour" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts discussing roles or functions, particularly in economic or employment discussions.
Example: "In this project, volunteers will act as labour to support the construction efforts."
Alternatives: "serve as labor" or "function as labor".
Jeremy Corbyn's first act as Labour leader will be to attend a pro-refugee demonstration, he has announced.
Jeremy Corbyn's first act as Labour leader was to speak at a rally in defence of refugees, and speeches by leading figures emphasise challenging the scapegoating of the foreign-born.
When you use Airbnb, you're not part of the sharing economy but of "platform capitalism", a term Standing uses to describe how digital platforms act as labour brokers, extracting rent from every transaction (often 20%, sometimes more).
He's never played in the Premier League of politics, and the sense is that he rather enjoyed his position as something of a provocateur, a man who, when the occasion demanded, could act as Labour's conscience, reminding his colleagues that this is the party that should look after the poor and the disadvantaged, not the rich and the privileged.
The 'homelands' were developed midway through the 20th century to act as labour reserves.
He was active in Labour circles, canvassing and helping out with speeches, though less so during the Blair era than in Neil Kinnock's, when he acted as Labour's first-choice legal talking head on television.
One of Jeremy Corbyn's first acts as Labour leader was to support the establishment of an access to justice commission made up of legal experts, chaired by Lord Bach, and with the Fabian Society as secretariat.
Act as quickly as possible.
But he insisted that his party could not act as "continuity Labour", picking up from where it left off in 2010, but must respond to the problems of inequality and in-work poverty which had not been solved by New Labour.
The men were employed by Mr. Hill for a number of years, and Allighan Kangany, who is now ninety-three years of age, lives in his own country on a pension from his old employer, for whom he acts as a labour recruiting agent ; indeed, many of the coolies on the properties managed by Mr. Hill are either relations or friends of old Allighan Kangany.
