Quarto. (64)pp. With letterpress illustrations and text pasted atop ledgers, Cummins examines "the relationship in Western civilization between profits and pain, the 'business' of torture," and their recruitment to serve the slave trade and the prison industrial complex. The wordplay of the title draws out the theme then depicted by images of thumbscrews, slave ships, straitjackets, and the electric chair, among other nefarious implements. Indeed, Cummins' attention to the language of the enterprise and its intentional and afflicting double-entendres reveals a poetics of suffering that makes these tools seductive to a capitalist program of financial gain and ideological dominance. Bound in the style of 19th-century financial ledgers, in half black morocco with brown paper over boards. Fine, held in four-flap cloth-covered box.