Hacer changas, cobrar en dólares. ¿Quiénes trabajan en plataformas de microtareas en la Argentina?

In recent years, work platforms have gained great visibility and prominence in labour studies and public debate. While there has been a prolific academic production addressing different types of platforms in the local context, microtask platforms have been less explored. These platforms allow large projects to be broken down into small tasks and assigned to anonymous workers, each of whom remotely executes a tiny part of the project and receives compensation for it. In this paper, we dig into the particularities of micro-tasking work in Argentina. Based on a survey of 2118 Spanish-speaking workers using two different micro-tasking platforms -Microworkers (between December 2020 and February 2021) and Clickworker (between March and June 2022)- this paper analyses the results obtained for 225 workers based in Argentina. This survey is part of the scientific project TRIA and it collected data related to the socio-demographic characteristics and the professional and educational backgrounds of respondents, the type of work activities carried out through the internet, and the strategies of use of microtasking platforms. The survey results are complemented by semi-structured interviews with a selected group of participants. In this first approach to the analysis of microtask workers in Argentina, we seek to answer three questions: Who are these workers? What use do they make of these platforms? Why do they work there?