Walter Korpi
From 1959 to 1964 he worked as a sociologist at the Militärpsykologiska institutet (Institute of Military Psychology) and from 1965 to 1966 at the Swedish Metalworkers Union. He then worked as an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University (1966-1968). He then worked as a professor of sociology at Umeå University until 1969 until he returned to the previous university as a professor of sociology until 1972. Since 1972 he became a professor of social policy and continues to do so until then.