An entrepreneur and defender of the right to education, she set up a childcare service in her cotton factory, along with a library where many women learned how to read and write. She inherited an industrial complex that she began to run in 1910 at the age of 22, although the job was officially her husband’s because at that time a woman could not run a business. With a staff of 1,200 people, primarily women, she advocated for the improvement of their working conditions with services that would enhance their education and make it possible for them to balance work and family responsibilities at a time when childcare was the sole responsibility of women. The library, company store, infirmary and childcare space were not only an advance for the women workers, they also signalled recognition of the job of caregiving and an opportunity for the children to grow up in an environment that was not fraught with precariousness. Upon her husband's death in 1926, she started to officially run her companies and continued to do so for decades. The Torrassa stop is near the former factory and current Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, located at Av. de Josep Tarradellas i Joan, 44 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.
An entrepreneur and defender of the right to education. She installed a childcare service in her cotton factory, along with a library where many women learned how to read and write.