Before alarm clocks, people were employed to wake workers up with a long stick. A knocker-up was a profession in England and Ireland that started during and lasted well into the late 1920s.
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Today, we rely on our alarm clocks or cell phone alarms to wake us up in the morning, but before these items were invented people still needed to be to work on time. Most large, industrial cities had people as knocker-uppers. Knocker-uppers carried long sticks with them and went from house to house, rapping on bedroom windows to make sure that their clients got out of bed in time. Knocker-uppers earned a few pence each week from their clients and an extra bonus if they stayed at the window, annoyingly knocking, until they were certain the person was awake and ready to start their day.
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