She was the driving force behind the women's strike of 1918, a protest that started as a mobilisation due to an increase in the price of coal and basic food items, such as bread. A social activist and feminist who lived in the city's District Five – the present-day Raval – where she called her neighbours to the doors of the Civil Governor’s building to protest that workers could not afford the increased prices and faced hardship to survive the winter. The protest eventually mobilised thousands of women and their action culminated in a public denouncement of the terrible situation of women in society. The metro stop at Mercabarna, the most important food distribution point in the Metropolitan Area, bears her name.
She was the driving force behind the 1918 women's strike in protest against the rising cost of coal and basic foodstuffs. That mobilisation, which attracted thousands of participants, shed light on the desperate situation of women.