ABSTRACT
The written account of work injury is being depicted as a consequence of changes in and/or demands made by management of work at schools either by invoking action or by neglecting to take action. The subjective interpretations given in the accounts depict both naming who or what at the work-place is seen as responsible for the experienced illness and blaming processes at work in the school environment. The chapter attempts to use these accounts as eye views of everyday life from school employees in Sweden, an advanced welfare state. It looks how 569 primary school employees in Sweden, women and men between 2012 and 2015, framed their illness as caused by work in their accounts reported to the Swedish Work Environment Authorities. The chapter summarizes the analysis of different accounts with a discussion of processes at the core of New Public Management and how they change the organisation of work in a way that affects de-professionalization of teachers as employees.
