How can we embrace the wealth and improvement in human life and universally associated with industrialization while protecting this fragile planet that sustains us? That profound dilemma has its origins in the enormously transformative process of the Industrial Revolution which took place initially in Europe between 1700-1900. We first looked at the global context of industrialization. Then we looked at how it spread beyond Great Britain to Western Europe, the U.S., Russia and Japan. We also looked at the Industrial Revolution's impact on building a distinctly middle class society. Life for the laboring classes was entirely different from the aristocracy and middle class. We began to look at Marxian theory, and the growth of the Labor movement.