Margaret Bondfield

Margaret Grace Bond Field ( born March 17, 1873 in Chard, Somerset, † June 16, 1953 in Sanderstead ) was a British same official, politician of the Labour Party and the first female member of Parliament, the Labour Party and first minister of the United Kingdom.

Life

Bond Field began at the age of 14 years vocational training with a textile merchant in Brighton, where she noticed the feminist Louisa Martindale, which enabled her to further her education and closer brought the ideas and conceptions of the political Left.

From their early twenties involved as same official and was initially in 1894 a member of the Council of the seller union (Shop Assistants ' Union) in London. In 1896 she was commissioned by the Industry Council of Women therefore, to examine the pay and conditions of sellers. After the release of their investigation report, it was in 1898 elected as assistants of the Secretary seller union before it was in 1908 secretary of the Workers League (Women's Labour League ). In 1923 she was finally Chairman of the Trades Union Congress (TUC ), the umbrella organization of British unions.

In 1923 she was also elected as a candidate of the Labour Party for the first time as a member of the lower house (House of Commons ) and belonged to this 1924, representing the constituency of Northampton. She was thus the first member of Parliament, the Labour Party.

In 1924 she was Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and took over so that from January to November 1924 her first government post as " junior ministers " in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. In 1926 she was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons and represented now until her election defeat in 1931 the constituency Wallsend.

On June 5, 1929 Prime Minister MacDonald appointed her as Secretary of Labor (Minister of Labour ) in his cabinet, which she became the first female minister in the history of the United Kingdom. The Office of the Employment Minister, she held until the end of MacDonald's Labour government on 24 August 1931.

In 1935, she ran again in the constituency Wallsend unsuccessfully for re-election to the House of Commons.

Publications

  • Socialism for Shop Assistants ( 1909)
  • The National Care of Maternity (1914 )
  • The Meaning of Trade (1928 )
  • Why Labour Fights ( 1941)
  • Our Towns: A Close-up (1943 )
  • A Life 's Work (1949 )
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