This paper analyzes the implementation of the Argentina Trabaja social program in a municipality of Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the aim of showing that the intentions of the program to promote social and labor relations in the social economy were affected, in this municipality, by the characteristics of the political networks by which it was implemented. From this case, we argue on the one hand that political networks allow and accelerate the functioning of the State, since through them national social programs reach their recipients, but on the other hand, they limit the programmatic objectives. The work was done through a qualitative methodology that combined participant observation and in-depth interviews with municipal officials and recipients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]