Not really. Cat was a big company back in the day. My parents are Boomers. This was post WW2 Peoria, IL, and Caterpillar was the major employer for the city. This is before automation, so if a part needed to be made, moved, bolted, removed, replaced, repaired, or scrapped, that meant a person had to do it.
My parents lived about 4 miles apart from each other as kids. They went to the same High School. It's where they met. They got married just after graduation. My dad was the only one his cousins or my mom's brothers & cousins to not work for Cat.
If Cat hadn't started moving its production facilities overseas back in the 70s, and laying everyone off, most of my family would still be working for Caterpillar.