Margaret Grace Bondfield
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Margaret Grace Bondfield 1873-1953, British political and trade union leader. A Labour member of Parliament (1923-24, 1926-31), she served as secretary to the minister of labor (1924) and, under Ramsay MacDonald, as minister of labor (1929-31). She wrote and lectured extensively on labor and socialist movements.
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