You might be interested in this book:

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.

Schivelbusch does make the claim that coffee was a kind of ultimate capitalist drink, and points out (for example) that Llyod's of London originally started in a coffeehouse. Coffee enabled a certain class of workers to work faster and longer at a time when that style of labor was increasingly seen as necessary.

I tend to think that some of Schivelbusch's claims are overblown, and shifts in European economies are certainly not reducible to the popularity of coffeehouses. But I am convinced that there's a connection there, at least at a symbolic level.

I've looked a lot at coffee history recently, and I think this would be a tenuous suggestion. There is an argument that it played an important role in the Enlightenment, and some historians have tried to compare the tone of things eminating from a pre-coffee period to things coming from the world of the English and French coffeehouses and claimed that there is a more positivist tone, which has been attributed to the fact that coffee is a stimulant, as opposed to alcohol being a depressant.

The problem with the argument regarding the Indsutrial REvolution is that coffee was no longer very popular in England during the outset of the IR. The prices were becoming too high for the coffee bean, and English tastes had shifted more towards tea anyways. In fact, it's more likely that the indsutrial revolution, with its new technologies and such, had a larger role to play in making coffee popular, rather than the other way around. Coffee in the late 18th and early 19th c. was decidedly weaker than it was when new brewing methods came into prominence during the 19th century.