This chapter situates us in the engine room of the regime of abstract space—the capitalist production process. We will explore here Ireland’s most explicitly industrial text, The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. Within the Puroil Clearwater refinery, Ireland locates abstract space’s constituent features of fragmentation, homogeneity and hierarchy. This is unified in an aesthetic process of capital subjectification, whereby capital renders workers as passive objects and arrogates to itself subjecthood through such phenomena as monumentality and the profound division between manual and intellectual labour. We will then telescope out to the global scale, where we will see how the global configuration of capitalist production relations renders the Australian experience of abstract space one of foreign domination. Lest the impression be one of total and crushing capitalist power, we will go on to investigate how Ireland manages to aesthetically force the ideology of capitalist efficiency and rationality into open contradiction, with the novel’s climatic explosion metaphorising the flammable contradictions at the heart of the capital-wage labour relationship.