This is part 5 of an ongoing Pulitzer-Prize winning series. Click here for the earlier parts in the series, or to discuss the series as a whole.

The New York Times spoke with more than 100 child roofers in nearly two dozen states, including some who began at elementary-school age. They wake before dawn to be driven to distant job sites, sometimes crossing state lines. They carry heavy bundles of shingles that leave their arms shaking. They work through heat waves on black-tar rooftops that scorch their hands.

Archive link doesn’t work well with the photo-heavy page. Here’s the original link (might be paywalled, YMMV)