Work as servants, miners, and policemen

The question is referring to the occupations that were commonly carried out by Metics in Ancient Athens.

Explanation:

Metics were either freed slaves, or foreigners living in Athens. They were in the middle of the Athenian social hierarchy, above slaves, but below Athenian citizens, and as a result, had a combination of rights and duties.

They often work in menial jobs as servants, miners, carpenters, hunters, or cooks. Some of them also became policemen.

the intolerable acts were punitive laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the boston tea party. in great britain, these laws were referred to as the coercive acts.