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Through an exploration of census records, company documents, local newspapers, and other primary documents, this thesis reveals the complexities of women’s labor at the Canton Division of Champion Paper and Fibre Company during World War II. While the war made it fashionable for companies to feature their own Rosie the Riveters in the media and company newsletters, women had been working at Champion much earlier. The war added a new type of labor, patriotic labor, the performance of wartime-specific tasks on behalf of, or with encouragement and regular reminders from, the employer. These patriotic duties included singing and dancing for wounded veterans at military hospitals and fulfilling the community’s Red Cross quotas. The patriotic labor extended to the home front, and women rationed goods, planted victory gardens, and loaned their money to war bonds to accommodate pressures from their company, community, and country. They performed these tasks while negotiating various standards for respectable ladies. This study explores the work women performed at the Canton Division of Champion, on and off the clock, and how their labor intersected with caregiving tasks and patriotic duties.