"And check out table 3 <ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/atus.txt>: leisure hours decline with educational attainment. The working class has more time on its hands than the professional-managerial class."
I take that with a pinch of salt. Time Use studies groan under the weight of moaning "overworked" managers, most of whom hide away from their depressing families at work, where they can goof around in good conscience.
The difference between the working class and the professional-managerial class as far as working hours goes, is that the latter control their working environment, and so are at liberty to hang out there, as they are pleased to.
"Then there's table 9 - people spend only a couple of minutes a day talking with their kids."
That's why we go to work, isn't it, so that we don't have to talk to the kids?
And do I read right, 5-5.7 hours a day leisure time? This is your over-worked Americans?