Possible Research Topic

Being Lithuanian, as you can see by the wonderful flag that is on my page, I wanted to try to find a Lithuanian labor community where I didn't need to fly to my homeland to find some information on the topic.  After a long weekend of thinking, and nothing else, I realized that there was a Lithuanian community in Chicago in the early 1900's that was related to labor.  If you have ever read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, you will know what I am talking about.

Here's the general idea of the topic.  Lithuanian immigrants in the late 1800's and early 1900's moved to major cities like New York, Detroit, and mainly in Chicago.  There they were trying to find any sort of job that they could find.  At that time in Chicago, the meat packing industry was booming and the owners of those companies were looking for cheap immigrant labor.  This is where most Lithuanians went to work despite horrible wages and working conditions.  This brought the community together in a way, but I would need to do more research to try to find out more on the topic to see if it could even pass as a reasonable research topic.  That's pretty much it.

Beef Industry, Chicago, 1900

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beef_industry_panorama_1900_loc.jpg