Deslippe is the author of two books, Protesting Affirmative Action: The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) and “Rights, not Roses”: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism (University of Illinois Press, 2000). In addition, he is co-editor (along with Eric Fure-Slocum and John McKerley) of the forthcoming Civic Labors: Scholars, Teachers, Activists, and Working-Class History. As a Ph.D. student at the University of Iowa he was co-chair of the Campaign to Organize Graduate Students (now, COGS-UE Local 896).