This oral history interview with Rita M. Lievsay was conducted by Sandra Cook and Amy Kesselman in October, 1980. In this interview, Livesay describes how she came to work as a riveter in the Kaiser shipyards in Portland, Oregon, and shares her experiences as a woman worker. She talks about her wages, about the different jobs she worked in the shipyards, and about the houses she lived in. She shares her work history and discusses her life after the end of the war.