So, for anyone with a Bachelor's or higher, leisure time has plummeted. For everyone else, the increase in "leisure time" is likely because of underemployment, so they would actually prefer to be working more to earn more money.

That seems somewhat unlikely? There are 168 hours in a week, or 128 hours of time outside the 40 hour workweek. Even those without a high school diploma have 113 hours of leisure per this graph- so I don't think we can immediately conclude they just don't have work.

Also, this chart is from 1965 to 2005, so more recent trends will only be in a tiny corner of this graph.

So if a normal work week is counted at 40 hours, and there are 99 hours of leisure according to that chart for a modern man with a degree, then it works out that the average person on that plot line is now working 168 - 99 = 69 hours on average or 69 / 40 = 172.5% of a normal week. Sounds unbalanced to me.

Juliet Schor has an excellent book on this subject The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure http://www.amazon.com/Overworked-American-Unexpected-Decline...

Right, the average working man works more than 40 hours a week because per the article, this chart counts things like housework as work.