One of the "issues" at the heart of your question is simple nostalgia for a simpler age. Our lives seem heavily regimented, to the service of corporations who dominate us, so we can go out and consume the great product of industrialism. If you look back to the Early Modern Period, the Renaissance, even as far back as Classical Greece, people seem to live slower lives which are more in tune with nature and their community. These perceived virtues (especially ecological) seem quaint or even preferable to our modern alternative. In that light, Industrialism (and modernity in general) seems to be the great thief of virtue, a great despoiler of innocence which came one night and robbed the world of its simplicity, and its rationality. Of course, we know this to be false. But there is still that trope, that modernity took as much away as it gave, and you see this theme played out across art (does art mirror life, or does life mirror art).

The other idea I would like to challenge is

Yes I am very aware of the the growing pains/labor/monopoly issues etc. that have been long ago been addressed.

That one. You seem to suggest that we are in some kind of post-industrial utopia. And while I cannot yet determine if we are indeed post-industrial, I can assure you that this is not the workers Utopia Marx promised us (or Mises either!). Just watch the news and youll see countless examples of wage cuts, benefit cuts, and employment cuts. Shop for cable and internet access and youll realize that there is not always real choice (When I lived in Philadelphia, Comcast had the only hookups in my neighborhood. If I wanted internet, I had to use their service. That sounds awfully like a monopoly to me.) And just last month there was a major strike by workers, looking to increase the minimum wage. Whats the point of saying all this? Well it gets back to the original point. If we lived in the Workers Utopia, we would have no need for art which so imitates industrial plight, except to say "how quaint and primitive". Instead, we see these battle fought out in countless books, shows, and movies, between the evil owners, the greedy strikers, and the common man trying to make his way and a rough an unfriendly world.

One thing you may want to explore is not the direct disenchantment with industrialization or technological change itself, but the ways the benefits of these innovations had been shared, not only in the long term, but immediately.