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Mary Smith, paid weekly for shooting dried peas at workers' windows to wake them for their shifts, Britain, 1930s

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Mary Smith, paid weekly for shooting dried peas at workers' windows to wake them for their shifts, Britain, 1930s

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Question is: Who woke her for her shift?
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  The knocker-upper knocker-upper, I’m not joking.

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