Warring Brothers: Constructing Komatsu’s and Caterpillar’s Globalization

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https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2021.183007

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Geography, Global production networks, Global scale, Komatsu, Caterpillar

Abstract

We detail how the world’s two largest engineering machinery firms, Japan’s Komatsu and the us’s Caterpillar, actively managed geographical concerns to become global actors. We argue that their globalization was not a teleological given but had to be proactively made. Both the state and organized labor played significant roles in shaping their geographical evolutions, as did their efforts to outmaneuver each other spatially. Their globalization, then, was part of a broader spatial politics under capitalism.

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Biografie autore

  • Caleb Goods, University of Western Australia Business School

    Senior lecturer of Management and Employment Relations in the University of Western Australia Business School. His research focuses on the concept of creating green jobs and the interlinking of greening work, the broader economy and contemporary society. He is also the chief investigator of a research project examining work and workers’ lived experiences in the “gig economy”. 

  • Andrew Herod, University of Georgia

    Distinguished research professor of Geography at the University of Georgia. He writes frequently upon matters of labor and globalization and his most recent book is Labor (Polity Press, 2018). 

  • Bradon Ellem, University of Sydney Business School

    Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Sydney Business School and a senior honorary research fellow at the University of Western Australia. His current research mostly concentrates on industrial relations in the resources sector and Australian unionism. 

  • Al Rainnie, University of South Australia

    Research professor at the University of South Australia. He is currently researching Just Transitions in Troubled Regions. 

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2021-08-16

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V. 33 N. 2 (2021)

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Dossiê - Lutas trabalhistas transnacionais e repertórios políticos

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Copyright (c) 2021 Caleb Goods; Andrew Herod; Bradon Ellem; Al Rainnie

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Goods, C., Herod, A., Ellem, B., & Rainnie, A. . (2021). Warring Brothers: Constructing Komatsu’s and Caterpillar’s Globalization. Tempo Social, 33(2), 123-142. https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2021.183007