Margaret Grace Bondfield

Bondfield, Margaret Grace, 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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