redžić worked as an assistant professor in social science at the philosophy faculty in sarajevo university in the 1950s. he was director of his publishing company "svjetlost" from 1952 to 1959, and also director of the institute for the history of the labor movement between 1960 and 1971. he retired in 1972, after which he was elected to the academy of sciences and arts of bosnia and herzegovina, first by correspondence in 1978, and then as a full member from 1984.