Women, Sociology, Secular Jewish left in Canada; Immigrant Women; Gender, Race and Ethnicity; Left Politics, the Cold War and the War on Terror; Women and Work
Ester Reiter (née Koulack; 1941) is an American-Canadian historian and sociologist. She is a Professor Emerita in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at
York University. In 2017, her book A Future Without Hate or Need was shortlisted for the
Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature.
She left Winnipeg to pursue her PhD at
York University in Toronto, Ontario.[5] In order to complete her thesis, Reiter worked at a Toronto-based
Burger King to observe how work is organized in fast food.[6]
She stayed at Brock until the 2002–03 academic term when Reiter was given a full-time appointment as an associate professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at
York University.[11] She retired from teaching in 2011.[12]
In 2016, she launched her book A Future Without Hate or Need.[13] The book was a study of how left-wing secular Judaism in Canada survived and flourished from the 1920s to 1960s.[14] The book was shortlisted for the 2017
Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature.[15]
^Donald C. MacDonald (May 18, 1986). "Life in the fast food lane Young workers 'cheap, plentiful, easy to replace' On the Job - Confronting the Labour Process in Canada, ed. by Craig Heron and Robert Storey". Toronto Star. Ester Reiter's Life in the Fast Food Factory. Reiter now teaches sociology at Memorial University, in Newfoundland
^White, Nancy J. (November 11, 1986). "Where the money goes". Toronto Star.
^"NARAYEVER NEWS"(PDF). 2019. p. 17. Retrieved September 27, 2019. Ester Reiter taught Sociology and Women's Studies at York University until her retirement in 2011.
^Kosak, Hadassa (2017). "Reviewed Work: A Future Without Hate or Need: The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada by Ester Reiter". Labour / Le Travail. 80: 307–309.
doi:
10.1353/llt.2017.0052.
JSTOR44820590.
S2CID148812501.