The phrase "acute labour" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning.
It could potentially be used in contexts discussing urgent or intense work situations, but it is not standard terminology.
Example: "The team faced acute labour demands during the project deadline, requiring everyone to work overtime."
Alternatives: "intense work" or "urgent labor".
Today reveals an acute labour shortage in the food processing industries, as east Europeans are reluctant to come here.
In the years of economic expansion after World War II, when there was an acute labour shortage, immigration again reached a high level.
The rapid growth of the munitions industry created an acute labour shortage that brought many more women into the industrial workforce.
The drastic population decline in Europe after 1350 as a result of the Black Death left much arable land uncultivated and also created an acute labour shortage, both economically favourable events for the peasantry.
As factories close, building stops and business slumps, low-paid illegal migrant labourers find their services surplus to requirements.Malaysia and Singapore have for years suffered acute labour shortages, plugged by immigrants from poorer countries.
For a start, however acute Labour's fractures are today they pale in comparison with the early 1980s, when rival factions tore into each other with gusto, virulence and venom.
That contest will be rendered all the more acute because Labour lost two separate elections: one in England and one in Scotland.
MPs of all parties face the prospect of battling it out with colleagues to retain a seat, but anxieties will be particularly acute within Labour, where anti-Corbyn MPs fear that the necessary reselection contests could be an opportunity to reshape the parliamentary party in Corbyn's favour, if he retains the leadership.
Now, however, the government has decided on an ambitious project to build a freight corridor.The problem of poor infrastructure is particularly acute for labour-intensive industries.
For a start, it becomes an acute analysis of Labour's recurrent dilemmas.
Before then it was Plaid which posed an occasionally acute challenge to Labour in the industrial valleys of the south-east.
